by Jim Stitzel | Jan 31, 2014 | General
I think I’m done with third-party commenting systems. They haven’t served me particularly well over the last couple of years. First it was IntenseDebate, acquired a few years by Automattic. I had high hopes for IntenseDebate, since they’d been...
by Jim Stitzel | Aug 23, 2011 | WordPress
That’s it. I think I’m done. I’ve had a pretty good relationship with IntenseDebate’s services on my various websites for quite a while now. Sure, there have been hiccups and periodic issues from time to time, but that’s the nature of...
by Jim Stitzel | Dec 5, 2009 | WordPress
I recently had to clean up the database for a WordPress installation where several thousand spam comments had managed to slip by the filters and get themselves approved. Naturally, going through and marking each individual one as spam would have been a mind-numbing...
by Jim Stitzel | Oct 31, 2007 | WordPress
I don’t know how many other people who’ve upgraded to WordPress 2.3.1 are having this problem, but I’d noticed that none of my email comment notifications were coming in anymhttp://shamuswrites.com/wp-admin/post-new.php Writeore. I sent a note about...
by Jim Stitzel | Sep 17, 2007 | Technology
I’ve “complained about Xanga in the past”:http://shamuswrites.com/2005/03/01/tuesday-march-1-2005-at-0628-am/ about a variety of pet peeves with that blogging community, things both pertaining to many of the members of that community and about the...
