I mentioned last month that I wanted to move the site away from Disqus for commenting, and I’ve now done so.
At the moment, I’m trying out a WordPress plugin called WPDiscuz to upgrade WP’s basic commenting functionality. I’m still messing around with all the settings, and I expect options will expand a bit in the coming days and weeks as I figure it all out.
When you get to the comments bit of each post, you’ll see these login options:
You can sign in via Facebook, Twitter, Google, Disqus*, or WordPress.com. Or, if you click on the “Login” link, you can create an account with this very site and use that to post comments.
(*Yes, you can still use your Disqus account! One of the reasons I wanted to get rid of Disqus is because of their cookies, which track you across the web. Now, at least, it’ll be your choice whether to continue using Disqus here.)
EDITED TO ADD: To be clear about logging in via a social network: This uses information from Disqus, Facebook, etc to create an account for you here. It does NOT connect this site or your comments here to any other site or social network. It will not post your comments on any other site.
Guest commenting is not allowed. Drive-by commenters do not help foster the community we have here.
As for the information that this site retains in order to allow you to comment (your email and IP addresses), I do absolutely nothing with that. I do not sell your info, or trade it, or even look at it, really (unless maybe if it’s to determine whether you’re being a jerk and if I should ban you). Selling your info is how lots of websites make bank. I do not do that.
Feel free to use this post to play around with the new commenting system, and please do report any weird behavior or bugs you run into. (I figure there will be some.)
Enjoy!
EDITED TO ADD: I think if you add an avatar to Gravatar, connected to the email address you’ve logged in with here, it should show up with your comments. Let me know if that does not work for you. (If you log in via a social media account, it will try to grab your avatar there.)
EDITED AGAIN: If you’re having trouble and can’t post a comment here, drop me an email…
Test comment! Woo-hoo!
Another test!
At 2:22 and 22 seconds on 2/22/22, I was really tempted to watch Us for a second time.
Only a test. I repeat, this is only a test…
So, this was me, logging into the site via the now-defunct Flick Filosopher Twitter account. You can see that the comment id’s the commenter as having logged in via Twitter, and it pulled the avatar from Twitter, but it doesn’t link to the Twitter profile.
If I haven’t said it before, I really like the new profile photo.
Thank you! And as we can see by your avatar, you’ve logged in via Disqus, but there’s no access or link to your Disqus account.
In case people are worried about privacy issues…
Except for the spirited actress playing the mother, the casting didn’t work for me, there were far and away too many underdeveloped characters, and the plot lacked a strong coherent flow, although, to be fair, these issues are shared by the source material and original adaptation; however, I did enjoy the satirical animated underwater dream crisis, the atmospheric shots of the abandoned city at night, the emotional flying sequence prior to the climax, and the surreal, anticapitalist, bubblegum mystery.
I can’t wait to see what kinds of truly dedicated trolls and bot accounts drop by to thrill us with diatribes and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK4i66CBICs
P.S. I bet you all voted for Cheating Sleepy Quid Pro Beijing Brandon so he could oppress innocent white men and turn us all into lazy Venezuelan Nonbinary Socialist Vegan Beta Fembots who never get laid and have to live in their stepsister’s basement with her three disgusting and one pretty okay cat and pay child support to your whore wives who ran off with crossfit trainers who aren’t even really that good looking and probably can’t afford the payments for their wack chartreuse Tesla and that’s why I never trust critics and if you’d stop whining about poltiics you’d see this movie is a brilliant classic that people will be talking about for decades and I don’t have time to list all the reasons but if you want to know why watch the one hour review from my favorite internet critic Irate Stan who gave it a 9.75 out of 10 and now I’m gonna go stream it on my cousin’s account three times in a row just to prove how stupid this old lady critic is because it’s just liberal babble that never even talks about the movie and if you liked the soundtrack in the movie and want more fire beats and gas freestyle battles check out my soundcloud I also stream on twitch every other Wednesday at 8 PM and you can find me on my youtube insta and twitter if you search for UmeAlphaTruthSeekerSixNine I haven’t updated in a couple weeks, but there’s lots of wild and wacky cats wandering in the background, and I’ve got some really cool content and surprise guests coming soon Peace!
I’ve always said that the Die Whore! Die die die! series only really hits its stride in the fourth film.
Edit: hmm OK, have to remember to use the toolbar button rather than typing HTML.
I’m so lost right now, and I wrote large portions of this thread. I’m just glad that PopCorn Joe is no longer a character.
And a stupid technical question: I’m logged in using Disqus, and I see neither a toolbar nor an editing function. Do they show up only on services other than Disqus, or am I missing some tools that are available if you know where to look?
It looks as though editing ability goes away after a bit – I no longer see an edit button for the comments I posted yesterday.
While writing this comment (logged in with local account) I have a bar across the bottom of the editing box with B I U etc.
After I have posted it, if I hover over the text with the mouse pointer, a cogwheel icon appears at lower right (same level as “thumbs-up thumbs-down reply” on the left), and clicking on that gets me “edit”.
You can edit a comment for only 15 minutes after you first post it.
Is there an option to delete a comment if I’ve changed my mind? :-)
Not after 15 minutes. :-)
The rich editor (the toolbar) is available only on the desktop version of the site. If you’re using your phone, you won’t get it.
You can edit a comment for 15 minutes after you first post it, then it’s locked. If there’s something that you absolutely must change — like something private that you later realize you shouldn’t have posted — I can fix it for you. But no need to worry about typos and such! We all know we’re often typing quickly here.
I think this answers my question elsewhere. Thanks. :-)
I’m just going to pretend I’m on Twitter and try to be very certain of what I’m saying before I type, but it’s much easier to live without editing when you can’t type more than a few hundred characters. And even so, some of the stupidest things I’ve said in my life were said on Twitter.
If it turns out I can’t delete comments on Flick Filosopher, I may be posting less often here, for everyone’s sake.
It appears that if I log in on my iPad, I can, in fact, access the toolbar. It also appears that if I go to Gravatar and try to create a new avatar, drawn by someone who gives me fewer headaches than Nina Paley, the old Paley icon from Disqus will magically show up.
Now let’s find out if I can edit or delete a comment. If the note below says nothing important, then we’ll know I can’t.
ETA: This comment has been edited twice, with substantial effort.
Have you deleted comments here before?
Quite a few times. Sometimes it was very, very necessary.
ETA: And I just edited this comment on my phone. I don’t see a way to remove it altogether, but I could probably replace the text with a picture of my cat, if I had a cat.
Seems to be working so far. You’ve ruined this film’s perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes!
One of the nice things about this commenting system is that when you return to a thread, comments you haven’t yet read will have a pale yellow background, making them easier to spot when a thread gets very busy.
Also, new comments show up right away on the new comments listing.
Looks good so
far!How is it at posting links? Let’s see – pasting a Tweet directly:
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden_/status/1496736770242797569
Or is it better to use the link icon…
Direct YouTube copypaste:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9G1VOjN_84&ab_channel=ImagineDragonsVEVO
And link…
EDIT: Okay, so I click the gear icon to go back in to edit. The blockquote put all the lines together without the paragraph split, hmm. What if I do this:
Attaching a jpg – 2 MB limit, I see, and you can only attach one (or change it)…
EDIT: Okay, so spoilers need a title; can they still be embedded in a larger text block? Let’s see:
EDIT: Okay cool, learning how it works and its limitations. Limit one image that attaches at the end; blockquote doesn’t do multiple paragraphs;
Posting now!
FYI, a comment with too many links will automatically go to moderation as suspected spam. There are many add-ons available for this system, and I’m still going through them all. I’ll see if there’s one for noting trusted commenters or similar.
There is definitely one that allows commenters to flag comments as spam, and I’ll probably implement that soon.
Following up on my previous comment! I went in to edit several times, but got kicked out the last time – looks like the window to edit is really quite short. A few minutes? And I guess while my comment is “awaiting approval” I can’t reply to it, and it doesn’t show up on the “recent’ comments” section? Makes sense. But this later comment showed up immediately, so I guess having links and images requires extra screening.
Anyway, as I was saying, it’s cool to learn how it works and its limitations. Limit one image that attaches at the end; blockquote doesn’t do multiple paragraphs; spoilers get their own paragraphs. I wonder if there’s a way to get the attached image to be where I want it to be in the comment, rather than at the end; and if there’s a way to show the YouTube image/icon rather than just the link URL. What do </> and {} — Code Block and Source Code — do?
In any case, I’m happy to restructure my comments to fit the new system. It’s a relief not to have to put up with unregistered drive-by comments anymore. Thanks for doing this, MaryAnn!
Now that you’ve switched over from Disqus, can we also switch over from the Whole World Is On Fire platform? Because it really, really sucks… :-/
I think there are add-ons that will allow for better/more formatting and image uploads. I’ll check for that.
Yes, your previous comment got flagged by the system as potential spam for having multiple links. (I’ve upped that limit now to 4 links, so any comment with fewer should go through.)
Glad to know that you get a notice that a comment went through and just needs to be approved. At least you don’t have to wonder whether it just disappeared or something.
Yup, on my screen I could still see my comment with a note that it was “awaiting approval.” I’m guessing I’m the only one who could see it before you approved it. And I got an email notification when you did. :-)