What happened to the comments??

We’ve been using Haloscan.com for several years now to provide the comment feature on postalnews.com. Haloscan is being phased out by its parent company, JS-Kit. The replacement is a system called Echo, which looks like it has some pretty neat features. Beginning with today’s link to Alan Robinson’s “Congress and the Postal Service”, all future comment links will use the new system. Older comment threads will be converted over the next few days.

It may take us a while to customize everything so it runs smoothly with our particular site, so please be patient! And don’t forget you also have the option of posting comments on our facebook wall at fb.postalnews.com.

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9 Responses to “What happened to the comments??”

1
Hoagiehead
December 14th, 2009 16:57
Can it keep out posters like QQ and Blue Striper. AC 1 needs a special asshole filter on his account, then most of his posts won’t make it thru.
2
nosejob
December 14th, 2009 18:33
This s-c-s. Don’t mess with a good thing. Figures, USPS had to fix something that wasn’t broken.
You want my IP address – scr-w u.
3
cheese
December 15th, 2009 09:49
Way to kill your site. Good luck.
4
cheese
December 15th, 2009 12:52
This isn’t a USPS website, nosejob.
5
brian
December 15th, 2009 13:42
The “good thing” is no longer available, which was sort of the point of my post. I’m assuming you’re one of the people who complained about being banned but refused to tell me your IP address so I could lift the ban? FYI, you posted this comment from IP address 208.126.88.223, which is owned by the Atkins Telephone Company in Atkins, Iowa.
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Kansas NAPUS
December 15th, 2009 17:32
Why not use wordpress for your blog and comments?
It can be modified to look about anyway you want.
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Kansas NAPUS
December 15th, 2009 17:36
Ok I jumped the gun. You are using wordpress. I don’t understand the problem with comments then!
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brian
December 16th, 2009 07:45
Two different sites- this one, postalnewsblog.com, uses wordpress. The one the post refers to, postalnews.com, uses blogger. To be honest, I don’t think there is a “problem” on postalnews.com’s comment system. The new Echo system seems to load a bit slower than haloscan did, but I think the new features are worth it.
9
stumpy
December 16th, 2009 18:13
Keep up the good work Brian!