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Vellum 1.0a4 is out, and features comment support via a new Comments plugin and an Audience generic object type that abstracts the concept of “responses to your post” and is also used for Pingback support. Different response types within the same interface is a very neat idea, as Sam Ruby has demonstrated with his integrated comments, referral tracking, Pingbacks and TrackBacks. Stuart also suggests auto-discovery of You-Know-Me information from the URL of your weblog, presumably by another link element. This is a great idea, but I have reservations about the performance trade off as unauthenticated comment systems will have to retrieve the poster’s home page in the background every time they make a post.

Posted 21st January 2003 at 11:14 am

This is More Vellum by Simon Willison, posted on 21st January 2003.

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  1. Good point about the performance thing. I wonder if the best solution would be to be able to subscribe to an RSS feed of "comments *since your last comment*", rather than "all comments on this post"? It could be a one-click subscription if your aggregator supports that...

    Stuart Langridge - 21st January 2003 12:35 - #

  2. (the point being that then all posts with no further comments since yours would have an empty RSS feed, and your aggregator would know it hadn't changed from the ETag and Last-Modified stuff...)

    Stuart Langridge - 21st January 2003 12:36 - #

  3. I forget, are we for or against centralization today?

    Mark - 21st January 2003 16:53 - #

  4. Now, it's a Tuesday, and Tuesdays, Thursdays, and weekends I'm for decentralising everything. Except in February. I can't decide whether to laugh or cry now.

    Stuart Langridge - 21st January 2003 18:27 - #

  5. Stuart, your system is really nice. If you do start to cry, is there a Rather Silly Sobbing feed I can subscribe to?

    Jan! - 23rd January 2003 11:13 - #

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