See here – all the Science Blogs type blogs are transitioning platform. This has been semi-secret or something, who knows, anyway clearly it isn’t quite so secret anymore. I don’t know any deadlines or suchlike, but it can’t possibly make the comment system any worse.
Transitional Technical Difficulties?
Posted by William M. Connolley on May 16, 2012
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Keywords: transition
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#1 Wesley Dodson 2012/05/16
Hey William I’m your community manager, did you get last week’s email from National Geographic? If we need to update your email address please send it to me at webmaster@scienceblogs.com.
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#2 Rattus Norvegicus 2012/05/16
Well, they could use whatever comment platform my local paper the Bozeman Daily Chronicle uses. I check it out if you want to see a truly awful comment system (“Chronicle Comments” tab, since they try to use 3 or sometimes only 2 comment systems).
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#4 bluegrue 2012/05/16
> Worse yet, the comments to posts between April 18 and whenever the switch finally happens are currently going to be lost forever.
Ouch, that’s going to make scienceblogs HQ popular.
[I believe there is some hope that it will be fixed -W]
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#5 Hank Roberts 2012/05/16
> did you get last week’s email
Ya know, it’s time someone reinvented Western Union (ah, there’s a name to make the conspiracy-minded look up in alarm).
Seriously, we’re expecting the Internet to handle delivering groceries and tuning up our cars, it should have a way to convey important messages as effectively as the old Western Union Telegram. You got one of those, you read it right away.
[I think the point was he suspected he might have lost my email (but he hadn't, it was OK really) -W]
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#6 David B. Benson 2012/05/16
They certainly can make it worse.
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I see they have him iconized as a little hollow golden rectangle now.