I am spending my free time developing a web log comment system in PHP. It will be hosted on a superfast server colocated at visi.com. My goal is to make it fast, reliable and full featured. I will only allow ~ 100 users and it will be free. I expect it to be ready for public consumption on January 1, 2003.
The features, which may or may not all be ready by Jan 1 are:
- count comments
- store cookies on guest machines
- allow site owner to delete comments.
- Allow site owner to block IP addresses
- Ability to have comments show up in line instead of on a separate page
- Works without javascript enabled in guests browser
- Code generation for blogger, Radio userland, diaryland
- Ability to require commenters to log on with valid email address
- Search Engines can see comments
- Site owners notified by email when comments posted
- Site owners can view stats about guests, page load times and number of reads for each post.
- Owners can export comments in a text file or xml format to back them up themselves.
- RSS feeds.
Check back for progress and send an email if you want to help test it or reserve a slot when it goes online. My motivation for doing this is that the existing comment systems are getting a little bogged down because so many people are using them and I want the blogs I read regularly to have faster comments served. I also want to generate traffic to this blog and learn about hosting web services.
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