Comments on: Blogging upgrades coming

By: Charles

Charles — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:57:59 +0000

For god’s sake don’t switch to Feedburner. It’s notorious for outages and slowness, I know plenty of bloggers who have had a ton of trouble with it. If you need metrics, just run reports on your referer logs.

By: Phil Brown

Phil Brown — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:31:48 +0000

In Mac browsers you can hold down Cmd while clicking to cause links to pop up in new windows/tabs. Presumably some similar convention exists on Windows.
Yes, John. In IE8, for example, ctrl-click opens in a new tab and shift-click opens in a new window. Also, centre-(or mouse-wheel)-click opens in a new tab (which is my preference) or a new window if you set the preference accordingly.

By: Josh Brandt

Josh Brandt — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:40:52 +0000

John — my undergraduate degree is in Classical Languages. I feel your pain. :)

By: Terry Sutton

Terry Sutton — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:53:09 +0000

Its almost unbelievable that this site doesn't run on a modern blog-machine. [It does now. The fact that it didn't was a reflection of prioritizing customer-facing improvements (e.g. enhancements to Labs) over our own internal needs. --J.] Its really unbelievable that you don't know how many people subscribe to your rss. [Not that I'm uninterested, but what difference would knowing make? I can't and wouldn't post any more than I do. I suppose I'd be concerned if I saw my traffic steadily declining, presumably indicating a loss of interest in my content, but I haven't seen that. I simply do my best to provide useful, interesting content regardless of audience size. --J.] Its completely UNBELIEVABLE that Adobe has chosen Moveable Type over Drupal to run all of their blogs. It seems to indicate that very little research was done in making the decision. [That's not what it indicates. --J.]

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:20:56 +0000

I'm not sure if it's a shortcoming of your current setup or if it's your choice, but if you could have all your links automatically open in new tabs so I don't leave your page all the time when you have a bunch of links posted that would be great. [My fear is that I'd irritate just as many people as I'd please. In Mac browsers you can hold down Cmd while clicking to cause links to pop up in new windows/tabs. Presumably some similar convention exists on Windows. It would be really hot if there were a way to change this behavior on the fly, so that you could flip a switch on the side of the blog, then get the behavior you prefer *for every link*. I'm not sure how that would be done, though. --J.]

By: Timothy Mackey

Timothy Mackey — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:14:54 +0000

You don't like commenting that way John? I've always enjoyed reading people's posts and seeing your direct "running commentary." It feels more official, i suppose. ;-) [I think each approach will have pros and cons, and I'm not sure exactly how I'll use threaded commenting. I haven't liked the feeling of interrupting people before they've had a chance to have their say. --J.]

By: Luis Gracia

Luis Gracia — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:10:15 +0000

As for spam blockers let me suggest whichever Movable Type plugin talks to the Honey Pot server. Even my insignificant blog was hit by thousands of comment spammers before installing “Bad Behaviour” for WordPress. Now I am free of spam and can concentrate in other stuff other than deleting spam.
Best,
Luis

By: Josh Brandt

Josh Brandt — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:45:19 +0000

Apparently you can redirect your feed to feedburner using a 302 redirect, and it will be seamless for us subscribers (well, other than old posts showing up as unread). e.g. [Not ">i.e."? ;-) Thanks for the tip, Josh; I'll check it out. --J.]