commentluv's dashboard

I'm working on a Commentluv plugin for intense debate, it's looking almost ready!
http://beta.comluv.com/test-post-for-...

I have a very early version working at
http://beta.comluv.com/test-post-for-...

I am thinking about what to do with the logged out user form. There is no need for two url boxes. What I could do is remove the divs
#IDCColumnURLReply
#IDCColumnURL
and populate the original url fields with the value entered into the field I have added at the top of the comment area so the original functionality of the url field will be as normal.

It's still very early, I need to add some checks in the code for the presense of jquery and take all the css out and make it into a separate file before it can become a proper ID plugin but so far it looks promising!

I'll work on it when I get time between shifts, shouldn't be too long tho

I haven't got a facebook account to test this but I would expect it would be the same as using other methods to log in which still require you to put your site url into the "add another site" link below your name.
Commentluv can only find your feed if it knows where to look which means if you only have the facebook (or other account) listed there then it wont know where to look.


can you see if adding your site to the bottom of the list fixes this for you when you are using facebook login method?

commentluv code has been updated which should remove this error from happening

as the user found out, the error only shows on a page without a comment form which makes it redundant.

I have just updated the blogger commentluv code so it will add more stability and provide the user with a message if they haven't entered their url into their list of sites

ok, due to all the emails I just got in the last hour since saying I might take commentluv off blogger, i have edited the code so it adds a warning to the user if no url is present and tells them what to do to add one.

I also fixed the problem of the submit button not working if an error happened (I hope!)

your users only need to enter their url once in the last box, once they do that, it will automatically be inserted by jskit whenever they comment.

if they are logged out, they add their url to the field marked URL. commentluv will store that value in a cookie once the comment is submitted and as long as the user doesn't clear their cookies, it will be added the next time they visit a jskit form whilst being logged out.

I suggest you tell your readers they need to put their site url in the list of where they are from, show them the first image if it needs more explaining.

the only way i could make it easier is if I manually add a
"commentluv needs your url" field to every form whether the user is logged in or not.

I have responded on your blog . I'll add it here too . (short story, if you don't provide a URL then commentluv wont know where to look)

commentluv uses a jquery library to do the magic when you click into the comment text area, it does this by monitoring what is called the DOM which is all the objects on the page that are present when the document has fully loaded. If you go on to change the DOM by logging in to jskit then commentluv wont know about the change because it's record of all the objects is different from what is showing AFTER you log on.

This is why you need to refresh the page to get commentluv to work. That's a standard behavior for DOM manipulating 3rd party javascripts, there's literally nothing I can do about that, it's a normal situation for every javascript include that uses event listeners.

As for not working when you're logged in to jskit; commentluv only needs a valid URL to do the request for last posts, if you're logged in through any of the other platforms but don't have your actual site url as the last value in the list of who you are, then commentluv wont be able to fetch your last posts because none will exist at the url found at the bottom of the list. (see here)
Image 1. Where commentluv looks for your site


Once you have your url entered there, it will stay there wherever you comment on jskit systems.

I can see that once you have your site url entered, subsequent comments are including a commentluv link (see here)
There is a url there, commentluv knew where to look


this tells me that the comments you made that didn't have a link was because you hadn't provided a site url (see here)
Image 2. No url = no luv


Commentluv doesn't know what your site is by magic, it knows only what you tell it. If you don't put your site url there, it can't guess.

I can see some issues with the submit button losing functionality if the DOM changes, i will look into seeing if I can change the submit handler so it is more robust so it submits without the link if an error is present.

I hope this clears things up for you.

I have made test comments on this users blog whilst logged in to jskit and also whilst logged out. It worked for me on multiple browsers.

All I can say is, there is a huge amount of things that can affect this user/site ranging from how readily their ISP loads the commentluv code from the google code repository to how long a user is waiting before trying to comment.

I just made comments in IE, FF and Chrome both logged in and logged out here http://bpwebnews.blogspot.com/2009/09... and it worked every time.

I don't think there's anything more I can do.