So, to celebrate the fact that I now have more comments on this site than original entries (the 1321st comment was posted on the 1320th entry yesterday — pretty amazing, given that the first comment was posted less than 3 months ago)…
Anyway, to celebrate the newfound importance of the comments and commenters on this site, I’ve taken a lead from Sam and created:
- Recent comments, a compilation of recent comments from every open discussion site-wide
- Recent comments RSS feed (a work in progress, comments welcome — just think, they’ll show up there and you can track people’s suggestions via RSS… it’s like automated meta-navel-gazing, squared)
- Recent comments template
- Recent comments RSS template
Share and enjoy.
How come so many comments have the same value for dc:date?
Comment by Dare Obasanjo — Saturday, April 19, 2003 @ 11:43 pm
Because of a funny thing with MTComments, it shows the date of the entry: not the commenting date. I fixed this in my recent comments template[1] by ending the <MTCommentEntry> and then putting the date.
[I tried putting the relevant template bits here, but I didn't want to fiddle with escaping it.]
Doesn’t seem logical to me, but it works.
[1] http://eliot.landrum.cx/mt-templates/comments.xml.txt
Comment by eliot — Sunday, April 20, 2003 @ 3:34 am
Because of a funny thing with MTComments, it shows the date of the entry: not the commenting date. I fixed this in my recent comments template by ending the <MTCommentEntry> and then putting the date.
[I tried putting the relevant template bits here, but I didn't want to fiddle with escaping it.]
Doesn’t seem logical to me, but it works.
Comment by eliot — Sunday, April 20, 2003 @ 3:35 am
Sorry about the double post.. my inet connection was flakey last night.
Comment by eliot — Sunday, April 20, 2003 @ 7:32 am
Dates are fixed, thanks.
Comment by Mark — Monday, April 21, 2003 @ 12:39 am
Is it possible to get each comment to do a trackback to the original post, so that the comments show up under the entries in SharpReader?
Comment by Anonymous — Monday, April 21, 2003 @ 12:22 pm
Comments are not trackbacks.
However, if there is a way in RSS to specify that this is a comment and that its parent post is such-and-such, I’d be happy to add that to the feed.
Comment by Mark — Monday, April 21, 2003 @ 3:03 pm
Nearby:
· Home → Archives → Posts by longest average comment
I’m waiting.
Comment by Jesper — Tuesday, April 22, 2003 @ 4:38 am