Recent Posts - Page 15

Mon Feb 03 2020

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Configure How Long to Keep Unverified Comments

By default FastComments will keep your unverified comments for three days.

What does "unverified" mean?

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

Mon Feb 03 2020

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Threaded Pagination Comes to FastComments

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.

Sat Feb 01 2020

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How to Allow Anonymous Comments With FastComments

By default FastComments requires an email to comment if you are not logged in. We use this email to automatically create an account for the user and let them verify their comment. In order to allow anonymous commenting you just have to create a customization rule. Define the domain, and optionally page, that you want to allow anonymous commenting on.

Thu Jan 30 2020

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Image Uploads Come to FastComments

A picture is worth a thousand blog posts, right?

Wed Jan 29 2020

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How to Hide Your Comment Feed Under a Link

Don't want to show a comment feed at the end of your pages, but want to let users comment? We got you.

Tue Jan 28 2020

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How to Prevent Spam in Your Comments

There's no way to 100% combat spam. But FastComments deploys a number of measures to help.

Mon Jan 27 2020

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What Notifications Does FastComments Send?

Learn about how FastComments might - or hopefully might not - bug you.

Sun Jan 26 2020

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Migrating From Muut Comments To FastComments

Read this post to see how to fully migrate from Muut to FastComments.

It's simply a matter of removing the small snippet Muut gives you and replacing it with our own. You can even run Muut and FastComments on the same site temporarily to test and tweak the look and feel. We can help with that.

Sat Jan 25 2020

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Migrating From Commento To FastComments

Read this post to see how to fully migrate from Commento to FastComments.

Gotchas

Commento doesn't give us full URLs. What they provide is just the domain name that a comment thread belongs to - like "fastcomments.com/some-page". This means that the FastComments importer has to assume what the protocol is, and it defaults to https. If you run the import and are not seeing your data you may want to check that your site is properly secured.

Fri Jan 24 2020

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How to make a comment system like Hackaday.com

Here we'll explore creating a comment thread that looks like the one on Hackaday.

If you click the link to this post the overall page styling as well as the FastComments Blog will change.