Peter Haza's dashboard

Peter Haza replied on November 13, 2009 13:20 to the question "Rotate any icon" in Balsamiq:

I was looking for this feature now to be able to rotate the chain icon 90 degrees.
I think rotating will be a great addition for both images and icons.

A comment on the question "Post URL and post title don't work correctly." in IntenseDebate:

I think it's amazing that this isn't documented anywhere.
All docs say 'idcomments_post_title', which apparently isn't used at all.

I've even had a long support request about just this, which still wasn't resolved... untill I found this little thread. – Peter Haza, on May 22, 2009 13:25

A comment on the question "Collapse thread" in IntenseDebate:

here too.
It's very annoying that threads are collapsed by default. – Peter Haza, on April 29, 2009 16:25

A comment on the question "Is there anyway to have the same comment thread for a post on two different sites?" in IntenseDebate:

I'm pretty sure it's possible if you use the same account id and post id.

They are set with two javascript variables:
var idcomments_acct;
var idcomments_post_id;

Requires some manual work though, and if you don't know how to code anything it might prove difficult. – Peter Haza, on April 29, 2009 16:23

Peter Haza asked a question in IntenseDebate on March 27, 2009 10:45:

Comments feed has stopped updated

Our comments feed has stopped updated. (Actually seems to have stopped some time ago)

http://www.intensedebate.com/allBlogC...

This is pretty annoying, as signing up for comments via mail isn't working either, so this was our backup solution.

Peter Haza replied on March 24, 2009 09:04 to the problem "Trackbacks and pingbacks not showing in ID." in IntenseDebate:

Since I heard nothing more after Michael's reply I decided to take matter into own hands and just unapproved the trackback causing trouble. I think it was the ellipsis glpyh (...) in the linking blog's title causing trouble, but I wasn't willing to leave my blog without comments any further.

Here's the trackback causing trouble:

IE 6: Während die Deutschen diskutieren
... · Zierfischkaefig.de
Trackback from http://zierfischkaefig.de/webwork/ie-...
[...] die norwegischen Webmaster grüne Boxen sprechen und an anderer Stelle wird zum IE Death March [...]

Peter Haza replied on March 13, 2009 08:22 to the problem "Comment count link-generator is generating several links if the same idcomments_post_id has been used several places, even if a single idcomments_post_url is provided." in IntenseDebate:

Sorry, I realised the images were set to private the other day.
Very sorry about that, they are open for all now.

Peter Haza replied on March 12, 2009 14:27 to the idea "Limit popular posts by month, week etc." in IntenseDebate:

I totally agree. The top [n] blog posts doesn't really make any sense in a broader time span. Occasionally you hit a nerve, and lots of people comment, but if that was last month, I'm not really that interested in having that listed tas top commented this month too.

And we're using ID on a news site, and there it doesn't even make sense to have more than maybe this week's top commented. Most likely today's most commented is best.

In my opinion you should be able to define how far back it should count, in addition to how many that should be listed of course.

Peter Haza reported a problem in IntenseDebate on March 11, 2009 09:56:

Comment count link-generator is generating several links if the same idcomments_post_id has been used several places, even if a single idcomments_post_url is provided.

When using the generic link with comment count as described on the "Generic update/re-install for other platforms" page, it'll show a link to every page where the same idcomments_post_id has been used, even if I supply a idcomments_post_url value too. The reason for using the same idcomments_post_id across several posts is because we often post new follow-ups for an article, and want to keep comments across.

Example can be seen here(image): http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterhaz...
I can see why you would do this if I did not provide a idocmments_post_url, but when I do, it should only use that url.
Also, it's using the same id attribute for all the html links, which isn't valid according to the html specification. Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterhaz...

NB!:
This is tested on our test-server, which of course has a different hostname than the production servers. Hence the idcomments_post_url I provide while testing has a different hostname, and hence the idcomments_post_url is not matching any of the urls in your db, but it doubt that's what causing the comments link to be repeated several times.

IMHO, if I supply idcomments_post_url you should link to that no matter what, the comment count is decided by the idcomments_post_id anyway.

Peter Haza replied on March 05, 2009 10:56 to the problem "IntenseDebate javascript error kills ID on my blog post." in IntenseDebate:

I can add that the only browser it _is_ working in is IE7 (and possible other versions of IE). Please look into this. FF, Safari, Opera and Chrome all throw a javascript parse error.

The error comes from wordpressTemplateCommentWrapper2.php.

As mentioned before, it's related to one of the trackbacks, I think it's this one: IDTrackback1725059.

Now I've done lots of debugging for you, please fix this.

Peter Haza replied on March 01, 2009 01:34 to the problem "Has email subscription stopped working?" in IntenseDebate:

I haven't looked at this in a long time. I had to make a workaround which was based on fetching and parsing the site wide rss and sending the entries as mail.

The email address however did not fall under either of those categories. It was an address setup with the single purpose of receiving all comments made on the whole site.

A comment on the problem "Comments from friendfeed are showing up in our site feed" in IntenseDebate:

The comments aren't coming up on our site, they only come to the mail we signed up to follow the comments feed. We do not want friendfeed in the comments feed whatsoever. And they come from subscribing to the all posts feed, not from subscribing to a single post.

I can also add that the problem was so big that I had to create my own workaround based on fetching the RSS (which is not "contaminated"), parsing that, and sending each post from the feed as a separate mail. – Peter Haza, on February 25, 2009 18:40

Peter Haza reported a problem in IntenseDebate on February 20, 2009 18:24:

IntenseDebate javascript error kills ID on my blog post.

IntenseDebate is throwing a javascript syntax error which means the comment section is all gone from my blog post. Not cool when it's the most popular post I've had. Something in the trackbacks (most likely) is killing ID.

The error can be seen here: http://blog.peterhaza.no/current-web-...

Peter Haza replied on February 20, 2009 17:31 to the problem "Trackbacks and pingbacks not showing in ID." in IntenseDebate:

Found out I had to approve them in ID dashboard too! And there was no notification of this whatsoever. I found out by accident when I was browsing the dashboard and a comment popped in asking for moderation, I found all the trackbacks and pingbacks at the same time.

New problem though. After approving all the trackbacks and pingbacks, comments are working on one of my posts! I bet it's related to one of the trackbacks or pingbacks, but I have no way to see which one.

http://blog.peterhaza.no/current-web-...

Peter Haza reported a problem in IntenseDebate on February 20, 2009 11:40:

Trackbacks and pingbacks not showing in ID.

I've been getting lots of trackbacks and pingbacks to this page: http://blog.peterhaza.no/current-web-...
but I can only see the trackbacks from my own posts.

I've approved the pingsbacks in the WP dashboard, but they still don't come up in ID.

Peter Haza replied on February 11, 2009 07:08 to the problem "Comments from friendfeed are showing up in our site feed" in IntenseDebate:

I don't really know. Your system stopped sending out mail to out subscribed email. Well, first we got no emails whatsoever for almost a week, then at the end of the week we were getting like 2k emails a day, all empty, i.e the text was:
"Commented on:
<empty>
Go to comment
Unsubscribe"

Go to comment link didn't work of course.

This wasn't very desirable, so I had to create a workaround.
What I did was to setup a cronjob on a machine which fetched the site wide rss feed (which is working fine, and has no "unknown" entries in it) and sent each entry by email. (rss2email is an excellent tool for this)

In theory the same functionality as subscribing by email directly, but this works and has no unwanted entries.</empty>

A comment on the question "Can I edit the comments on my blog?" in IntenseDebate:

@saxtus Seems to be exactly what I proposed above 7 hours ago. – Peter Haza, on February 03, 2009 16:10

Peter Haza started following the idea "Allow moderator to give second chance to the disapproved comments" in IntenseDebate.

A comment on the question "Can I edit the comments on my blog?" in IntenseDebate:

No, I'm not assuming that, but I'm saying that's the kind of possibility you're asking for. And you're saying there needs to be some kind of warning that you can edit my comments, how else will I know to bail? – Peter Haza, on February 03, 2009 16:05

A comment on the question "Can I edit the comments on my blog?" in IntenseDebate:

What credibility do you get from editing someone's comment opposed to just deleting it? With the latter at least the commenter gets a chance to put _his_ words in the comment the way _he_ prefers.

This is pretty much like freedom of speech. I'm allowed to say mostly whatever I want to, but you're allowed to prohibit that I do it on your property. You are however not allowed to decide what I should say or not. – Peter Haza, on February 03, 2009 15:45