Sometimes the difference between marking something as spam and approving it can be the context - so FastComments provides an easy way to go from an individual comment to an exact spot in a thread.
By default, no approval process is required with FastComments. Your users comment, and their comments are immediately available for the entire internet to see (though with the unverified tag if they are not logged in). So what if you want to manually moderate and approve every comment?
Want to showcase the number of comments on a page before a user clicks in? No problem with FastComments.
A one-person army only scales so far. What do you do when you're overwhelmed by the number of comments you need 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 displayed next to every comment.
Gravatar brands itself as "A Globally Recognized Avatar". It's a service where you can define an avatar for a specific email. Any products you sign up for using that email can then use that avatar. This simplifies the process for people signing up for FastComments since their avatar is set up automatically.
FastComments will now pull default avatars from Gravatar. You or your users don't have to do anything to take advantage of this feature.
If your existing users have already set their own avatar - no worries - we aren't going to overwrite their custom avatars. Additionally, users can still replace the Gravatar avatar in FastComments.
FastComments is adaptable. It attaches to a standard element on a page, allowing it to work with any web framework.
Read this post to view an example of multiple instances of FastComments on the same page.
Read this post to show 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 into 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 specific page.
By default, FastComments keeps your unverified comments for three days.
When a user comments and provides their email, FastComments sends them an email asking them to verify their comment. This helps combat spam and highlights the comments that the authors genuinely want to be displayed.
If you enable Anonymous Commenting, they won't even need to provide their email!
Now you can configure how long to keep these comments - perhaps you don't want to automatically remove them at all! This is all configurable via Moderate Comments -> Edit Moderation Settings.