Dude, Where's My Comments?
You know, I noticed something a little while ago. I was going back through my March 2006 archives looking for an old post of mine, and I noticed all of my comments had disappeared. The only ones still around are the ones from April and May. Every other comment before that, from both Blogger and Tripod, aren't showing up. The funny thing is that all the comments from January to now are showing up between January to now in HaloScan's control panel, but just aren't showing up here. And needless to say, I'm both confused and a little bummed.
I did a wee bit of research, and it turns out that HaloScan does this in order to save bandwidth and memory, but I could keep them if I upgraded to a premium account. I'm most certainly not going to pay to keep my comments around, so sooner or later, I may just switch over to the comment feature that Blogger offers. I don't want my comments getting deleted, after all. Unfortunately, that means all the comments that were still around on Blogger aren't available on the main page anymore, but I guess sacrifices have to be made in order to make sure things work properly.
I'll probably still keep the HaloScan comments up at Tripod. The Blogger Experience is the one everyone reads and comments on, so I don't think comments on the Tripod blog disappearing will end up being that big of a deal. And if Blogger starts deleting comments, I'm just gonna throw a fit.
I did a wee bit of research, and it turns out that HaloScan does this in order to save bandwidth and memory, but I could keep them if I upgraded to a premium account. I'm most certainly not going to pay to keep my comments around, so sooner or later, I may just switch over to the comment feature that Blogger offers. I don't want my comments getting deleted, after all. Unfortunately, that means all the comments that were still around on Blogger aren't available on the main page anymore, but I guess sacrifices have to be made in order to make sure things work properly.
I'll probably still keep the HaloScan comments up at Tripod. The Blogger Experience is the one everyone reads and comments on, so I don't think comments on the Tripod blog disappearing will end up being that big of a deal. And if Blogger starts deleting comments, I'm just gonna throw a fit.
posted by Matt Sutton at
7:29 PM
5 Comments:
My priceless bon mots, gone? And by price I mean taste. SEE? Invaluable gems. All of them.
I hate it too.
Darn it. There's always a catch!
Stupid bureaucracy!
Actually the older comments should still be available if you can see them at haloscan--they may show a 0 comment count in the link but clicking the link still shows all the comments.
I still don't like the idea of the comments either not showing up or being deleted outright after so long of a time. Besides, showing a zero comment count when there actually are comments there is a little decieving.
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