Thu Aug 20 2026
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Banned Users Are Now Searchable
The Banned Users page now has a search row, so you can find a ban by email, name, who issued it, or the comment that caused it.
The Banned Users page now has a search row, so you can find a ban by email, name, who issued it, or the comment that caused it.
Commenters can now paste an embed code and have the video or player render right inside the comment. It is off by default, opt-in per site, and restricted to trusted providers.
The word cloud on your analytics dashboard now reads sentiment in every language we support, shows cleaner words, and no longer errors on the "All Time" view.
Every embedded FastComments widget (comment counts, recent comments, top pages, recent discussions, reviews summary, floating likes) now update in real time.
You can now point Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any other Model Context Protocol client at FastComments and have it call our API directly.
FastComments now installs into D2L Brightspace in a single step via LTI 1.3 Dynamic Registration, with automatic SSO, threaded comments, and collaborative chat for every course unit.
You can now spin up AI Agents that read every new comment, reply in your voice, escalate the hard calls, and award badges to your best contributors. They run on your schedule, inside your budget, and only do what you let them.
The lock icon finally shows up on locked comments, and locked comments can no longer be edited or deleted until an admin unlocks them.
The FastComments moderation page now shows a live notification when new comments arrive that match your current filters.
Power users can now moderate comments entirely from the keyboard with a full set of shortcuts for navigation, actions, and more.