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Hiii 😊

I’ve started to fear that EE’s native comment module is going to die slowly. Why? Well, to be honest, been surfin a lot of sites that runs with EE and most of those arent using EEs native comment module. Instead of it, they use disqus or link (as EE itself) to forums.

I surely hope that it wont disappear from the core tho.
Any thoughts, am i feeling “wrong” with this?

Cheers

Hi,

That’s not so untrue about Disqus, forums, and such things.

Comments management it’s more like “social integration” now, so the old school classic “leave a message after the tone” ... need some improvements. In my opinion, that’s the reason why we see less basic comment sections.

Anyway, I don’t think that comments module will quit the core, maybe it will be at the bottom of the priority when it comes to improve/update/release.

I’ll think about your post, next time i’ll implement comments, with the EE module, well that means today.

Andrei

Well, see attachment for the spam-***-comments for my little blog that nobody even read - and btw, it’s annoying to click FIVE times just to delete a comment from a channel entry…. (i kept my commenting open for 2 weeks, just to see how long that would continue and how many spams might come - today i had to end that madness..)

Honestly I have no “out of the box” solution either, i wish i had, but one day will come where it will be my turn to talk about Spam-tsunami over my comments section. It’s worst when it happen on a client project blog.

I’ll look more seriously around that topic, and i find the magic trick to make them vanish for ever, i’ll be back here with the details.

Hope you’ll find quick something that works, i’ll search also. Spam is really a zero fun issue.

Andrei

You could probably build a pretty nice (basic) comment system using Channels and Entries if you’re worried about this.

Channel for entries with a relationship to a particular entry. Then have a snippet such as this:-

{sn_comments}

{reverse_related_entries channel="ch_comment" status="open" sort="desc" orderby="entry_date"}
  <h3>{author} said…</h3>
<p>  {fi_comment_body}<br />
{/reverse_related_entries}</p>

<p>{!-- Put SAEF Comment form here --}

Using this method you could use statuses for moderation, use SAEF for comment entry (and putting a nice CAPTCHA there), comment pagination, limits and all sorts.

The idea falls apart a little bit when you start with threads, but then perhaps a second relationship of “Parent Comment” could kick in.

Would also allow for nice things such as adding it to a ranking module and allowing users to vote up and down comments in a Digg-like manner, adding “Random Comment” on sidebars and so on.

I’m sure it would need a fair bit of optimisation, but would probably quickly become nicer than the ‘core’ comment module and more future-proof as it follows the EE way of doing things quite strictly.

Food for thought?