I’ve released Whisper 0.2. Beyond some minor bugfixes, the big enhancement in this one is that the “post as micro mailing list” idea now works. The comments on every post form a mailing list, with everyone who commented auto-receiving everyone else’s comments, and all replies being archived on the mailing list.
Of course you can set your reply settings on a per-comment basis to disable this, or to restrict it to only send immediate replies to your comment. The only thing you can’t do so far is change your settings (e.g. from all to none) once you’ve made them. That will be coming later.
Still to go: trackbacks, I guess, and maaaaybe add textarea comments.
Get it: sudo gem install whisper --source http://masanjin.net/
I like using email for comments. Don’t do the textarea thing if you can avoid it. It promotes mediocrity and feature creep. I made it up the learning curve. Thanks for the help, William!
I like using email for comments. Don’t do the textarea thing if you can avoid it. It promotes mediocrity and feature creep. I made it up the learning curve.
I don’t know about feature creep, but there certainly is something to be said for raising the effort bar for comments.