Comments on: It is here … And changed things forever

By: Chaitan

Chaitan — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:38:13 +0000

@jujube

Like Ennis said, it's a one-time process. And you can even use TypeKey's 'remember me for 2 weeks' feature to make the whole sign in process transparent to you.

@Camille

Unfortunately, there is no way around using the username since nickname can be empty if a user doesn't fill in their TypeKey profile and that won't work for the new features. we need a way to distinguish between 2 sepia mutiny users and username is the only reliable way.

By: Camille

Camille — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 07:57:27 +0000

This is going to sound nitpicky, but I actually find the use of the username (as opposed to "nickname") a bit frustrating given how many names have already been registered for Typepad. I don't know if there's a way around that or if a way around would be at all preferable.

Registration wasn't hard, for those who are disuaded.

By: Ennis

Ennis — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:57:24 +0000

You only have to register once, and it only takes a few minutes. Really, try it please? We would hate to discourage you …

By: jujube

jujube — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:20:46 +0000

I used to post a lot of news items. But I find this registation process a tad intimidating and uncomfortable.

I wonder if there are others like me?

By: Ravin

Ravin — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:58:35 +0000

I like the new additions, but I wonder if the voting on news stories thing isn’t going to have the same problem it did the last time i.e… people’s bigotry shone through with a bunch of anti-Pakistan stuff getting ‘yay’s no matter what etc etc. Also… comment sections on the news stories? Man! so much more to try and keep abreast of!

By: rudie_c

rudie_c — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:30:44 +0000

“Fortunately, the comments function there means people who want to talk about particular stories that aren’t getting blogged about have a space in which to do so”.

thatâ€™s a cool function, power to the people

1000 thumbs up! To chaitan and the team.

By: Chaitan

Chaitan — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:13:22 +0000

Chaitan, check out this comment as an example of what I meant.

Looks like a bug. Thanks for reporting.

By: Chaitan

Chaitan — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:11:24 +0000

hi chaitan congrats. i have seen your web site it looks great. keep it up.

thanks dad.

By: puregold

puregold — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:48:46 +0000

Love the new set up. Great job guys!

By: chachaji

chachaji — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:26:35 +0000

Comments after the post DO retain all formatting including line breaks and paragraphs. If they have collapsed, please report it as a bug.

Chaitan, check out this comment as an example of what I meant.

Even now there are some popular news tab stories we’re not ‘bringing to the front’…

One possibility, currently remote (but it’s still very early days) is that, the back-blog could become the de facto front blog – if people posted their own mini post, and got comments, reactions, and rankings, etc, and eventually significant chunks of the general readership stopped coming to the front blog at all! For this to happen, of course, the interests of the bloggers and the readership would have to diverge significantly. Let’s hope that doesn’t happen!