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Tracking Comments

I don’t comment on other blogs very often, but when I do I tend to have trouble keeping track of the conversations. MovableType’s threadless comments are hard enough to read as it is without completely forgetting which blogs I’ve visited.

Here’s what I propose: since I’m already giving out my URL with every comment, why not let the host blog ping my site and keep me up-to-date on the conversation? If only bandwidth and server load were as small a concern for all bloggers as they are for me.. My server would happily deal with pings and RSS feeds at each reply.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 22nd, 2003 at 6:34 PM EDT and is filed under Blogging. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

3 Responses to “Tracking Comments”

  1. Scottish April 22nd, 2003 at 7:40 PM EDT #

    Mmm…I feel your pain.

    ::goes off to forget that he commented here::

  2. sheri April 23rd, 2003 at 8:06 AM EDT #

    hey adam :) i feel the same way. maybe there could be an option on the comment form to “ping me” or “email me” when the conversation has been updated. i often reply back on my blog when i get a comment and it would be nice to know that that person has potentially gotten my reply.

  3. sheri April 23rd, 2003 at 8:07 AM EDT #

    oh yeah… you should suggest this to movabletype. i think we’re on to something here.

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