By default no approval process is required with FastComments. Your users comment and their comments immediately are available to the whole internet to see (albeit with the unverified tag if they are not logged in). So what if you want to manually moderate and approve every comment?
Want to show off the number of comments on a page before a user clicks in? No problem with FastComments.
A one-man army only scales so far. What do you do when you're overwhelmed by the number of comments you have to review?
Read this post to see how to invite comment moderators to FastComments.
An avatar is the profile icon associated with every account and shown next to every comment.
Gravatar brands themselves as "A Globally Recognized Avatar". It's a service where you can define an avatar for a given email. Any products you sign-up to using that email can then use that avatar. This removes a step for people signing up to FastComments since their avatar is setup automatically.
FastComments will now pull default avatars from Gravatar. You or or users don't have to do anything to get this feature.
If your existing users have already defined their own avatar - no worries - we aren't going to overwrite their custom avatars. Also, users can still overwrite the Gravatar avatar in FastComments.
FastComments is flexible. It attaches to a regular element on a page so it works with any web framework.
Read this post to see an example of multiple instances of FastComments on the same page.
Read this post to demonstrate how to fully migrate from IntenseDebate to FastComments.
Localization is no small step - and it's arrived at FastComments. The embeddable comment widget is now fully localized in English (en-us), Spanish (es-es), and French (fr-fr).
You'll notice that we haven't slowed down, either. Generally when most applications add localization support the bloat starts to set in. In our case the client-side script has actually decreased in size as we've done some housekeeping and other optimizations at the same time.
If you'd like FastComments translated in your language, or you've spotted a translation issue, let us know.
With FastComments you can disable image uploads in the comment section of your website for either the entire site or just a particular page.
By default FastComments will keep your unverified comments for three days.
When a user comments and leaves their email FastComments will send them an email asking them to verify their comment. This helps fight spam, and highlights the comments that their authors really want shown.
If you enable Anonymous Commenting they won't even have to leave their email!
But now you can configure how long to keep these comments - maybe you don't even want to automatically remove them! This is all configurable ia Moderate Comments -> Edit Moderation Settings
FastComments now supports pagination without collapsing content! Also, if you want to read a long thread quickly FastComments has a "Load All Comments" button on long threads (like here).
This means that if you have hundreds of replies on a page we aren't going to bog down your site by loading them all up at once. One the user scrolls down to your comment section, and reads past the 30 comments we load initially, they can click "Show Next 30 Comments" to quickly load the next set and continue reading.
It's also well optimized, as usual. If you're into that kind of thing read about it on our engineering blog.
This requires no additional setup from you! Existing customers will get this feature. Enjoy FastComments.