Three Years of Hell to Become the Devil: Problems with Comments

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Problems with Comments

After too many users wrote to me with problems recording comments, I've deactivated SCODE. (The SCODE boxes should still appear, but they won't stop a comment no matter what you put in them. I'll be taking them away soon.)

Although I like the SCODE idea, I think it was kind of annoying to some readers when it did work, and lately it hasn't been operating consistently at all. In the meantime, Spamlookup has been functioning well enough that I really don't need it anymore.

My apologies to anyone who has had problems using the comments recently. I hope you'll come back and try again.

UPDATE: It seems that The Fool is having similar problems with MT 3.2 and SCODE. In fairness, I don't think SCODE is wholly to blame: MT changed the way a lot of things worked in this upgrade without providing very usable documentation to help out those who weren't following the process closely.

Posted by Anthony on September 13, 2005 12:39 PM | Permalink

Comments

Okay. Good. I'm not the only one!

Posted by: Fool | September 14, 2005 10:58 AM

Yeah, I'm quite frustrated with how SCODE, Spamlookup, and MT-Blacklist all do things I want with Spam, but can't combine themselves into one integrated, working plugin. The frustration of upgrading MT is directly proportional to how many plugins you've got, and the 3.2 upgrade has really screwed up my site.

Posted by: Anthony | September 14, 2005 11:20 AM

If only I were better at coding and writing this stuff. I find it really interesting, but being self-taught (such that I am), I haven't a clue what to look for to correct problems...and when I do I spend a lot of time looking at other sites' codes through "view source" to see where I may have messed up! Fun, but time-consuming!

Posted by: Fool | September 14, 2005 4:26 PM

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