Image via Wikipedia I've made a minor change to my comment policy.As of today comments will remain open on posts for 300 days.It was previously set at 180 days. … [Read more...] about Minor Comments Policy Change
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Official Google Blogs Now Accepting Comments
While I've always found the official Google blogs to be good sources of information they lacked interaction as comments were disabled.They've now changed their policy and are accepting relevant commentsFrom what I've been able to work out they haven't enabled comments on all their blogs as yet and Google staff don't seem to be engaging with the public. So it seems like it's a … [Read more...] about Official Google Blogs Now Accepting Comments
Mail Server Oddities – Comment Delays
For the past couple of weeks I hadn't been getting any email notifications about pending comments on this blog, which is why some of them took so long to appear. Since I tend to login to check for new comments every few hours and had also been hit pretty badly with comment and trackback spam, I didn't think too much about it. I logged in just now and noticed more comments in … [Read more...] about Mail Server Oddities – Comment Delays
Minor Change To Comments Policy
In order to preserve what little sanity I have left I've changed the way comments are handled on here slightly.Since comment and trackback spammers seem to target old posts I've decided to automatically close comments on posts that are 6 months old or older.The old posts that were attracting the odd comment were mainly to do with older versions of Ubuntu etc., so there's not … [Read more...] about Minor Change To Comments Policy
Typekey Login Fixed
I somehow managed to break the typekey login for commenters a couple of days ago. It's now fixed - thanks to SixApart's patient support team who talked me through fixing it on IRC last night. At least this time I think I know why it wasn't working, so I should be able to fix it again if I manage to break it! … [Read more...] about Typekey Login Fixed