Something better than CoComment?
I’ve been using CoComment to keep track of comments on other people’s blogs for about a year now, and I really like it. The interface they have on their web page is fairly slick and the fact that I don’t have to do anything extra to keep track of the comments makes it easy.
But I’ve found that having the extension enabled makes my browser slow down to a crawl, to the point where I now leave it disabled unless I’m making a comment which sort of defeats the whole purpose of having it. And when it’s enabled it makes the page on my browser jump when it attaches to the comment text area.
So I’m looking for alternatives and asking for suggestions. What do y’all use? More importantly what do y’all like and why? I think it’s really important to be able to track blog comments but not when it’s with a program that causes problems with the browser.
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Hi Ryan,
Sorry you are having problmes. We are working hard to fix the speed issue. Please let us know which sites you experienced this so we can look into it. Don’t abandon us, we are improving the service daily, we are aware of this and trying to get it fix.
Thanks, you can reach me at –edited out–
tks
It’s not any specific site that’s slow. It’s that having the extension enabled slows down Firefox overall.
And I’ve had several cases, and again it’s not specific to one site, where it keeps flashing that it’s submitting to coComment but never gets past that point and never submits the comment. Next time I notice that I’ll pop over to your site and leave a comment.
Overall though I really like how your software works. The fact that once it’s enabled it’s pretty brainless to keep track of comments is great. And I’ve still got the extension installed on every computer I use FireFox on, I just keep it disabled until I post a comment somewhere. Then I right click on the little CO icon and enable it.
And I went ahead and edited out your email address from your comment. Spam is a terrible thing :)
Hopefully you’ll come back Joaquin, so I’ve got a question while you’re here.
Any plans for supporting forum posts? I post on probably 20 different forums, but only check in with a handful regularly enough to keep track of the conversations. I think being able to track forum postings would be a great addition to your software.
Hi Ryan,
Tks for your info. It helps us identify the problem and fix it. I need to ask you if you also have firebug installed then you mightbe able to send us “Net” information from this tool (it gives us the time to load/execute each component of a page).
Regarding forums we already support some, and as always working on adding more.
Tks for the help.
Joaquin
I do have Firebug, so if I notice it again I’ll pass along the information.
And oddly I went and re-enabled the extension and haven’t noticed the jumping screen issue since then so maybe that was something y’all have gotten fixed.
What forum software do you support? I spend a lot of times on forums and haven’t ever noticed the coComment box under anything I’ve written.
Hi,
I am glad you are not experiencing delays any more. Let me get back to you on the forums.
Joaquin
Looks like I spoke too soon. I’ve had several cases now where FireFox threw an error about an unresponsive script. It was extension.js coming from cocomment.com that was causing the error. So back to disabled by default the extension goes.
Hi Ryan,
Could you please send me by email your external IP address ? (http://www.myipaddress.com). We will investigate why you have no response when calling our script from the extension.
Thanks for your help !