JS-Kit Blog Commenting System Test

I hope everyone had an exciting and safe weekend, before we kick the week off I wanted to take a moment to explain the JS-Kit Commenting system that I am currently testing called ECHO. I’m sure this is exactly what everyone wanted me to lay on them first thing on a Monday morning, but here goes.

As my blog continues to grow the reality is that the current WordPress commenting system makes managing and replying to each comment that all of you leave a complete pain in the ass, it takes twice as long as it would if I had a different commenting system, or at least that’s my current thought.

Now here’s the thing that is important for me to point out while this new JS-Kit commenting system “Echo” gets integrated to the site, I need you to be patient because the integration is not close to complete yet. If it were up to me it would be completely installed because I hate going to bed without projects completed, however getting JS-Kit installed and off the ground is not entirely up to me.

In regards to JS-Kit not being completely 100% on this site it’s due to the fact that my comment database is too big for the typical data merge, which means I had to write JS-Kit support and ask them to do the comment merging so that none of our previous comments are lost.

I also updated my account to the “Live” version of Echo which is something that will allow full comment interaction as if this were a forum, something else I had to write JS-Kit about and ask them how long the account upgrade takes to show.

Now before I get out of here let me be clear in saying that as of right now I am just “Testing” JS-Kit, doing so allows me to show some of you how this process goes and allows me to share my experience with the Echo commenting system. I will also say that as of right now this isn’t really off to a good start and I really hope it doesn’t become more fuel for Hell Week this week, I hate writing emails to ask people to do things that should be automated and I hate when account upgrades do not show right away, that’s two strikes.

I do ask that you all be patient while this JS-Kit integration either happens or does not happen, take a moment to leave a comment or a test comment of sorts in this post it will help you get familiar with the JS-Kit commenting system. The JS-Kit system does have some excellent features which will give all of you more options to comment and more ways to choose how you want to be logged in when you comment, for example you can login with Facebook or Twitter and post comments.

I hope everyone has a great day, I am trying to get this written before I run out of the house on what will be a very busy Monday, but before I go I wanted to say thanks to Asswass for posting a cool Insane Limos poll on his blog HiBurrito.com, he has a pretty bad ass looking system going on over there check it out and tell him EJ sent you and be sure to vote for your favorite Insane Limos limousine.

UPDATE: Monday August 17, 2009 – 9:17am

I received my second follow up to the email that I sent out yesterday that the JS-Kit plugin prompted me to send, the first email was assuring me that someone in tech had been notified in regards to the data transport not working and the account update not showing. Below you will see a snippet from the email (in order to keep things confidential), at this point I am starting to consider going to a different system, however since I do have a fair amount of work to get done I will hang tight for as long as my patience will let me. I will keep you posted.

“Your request has been received and put into the queue for processing.
We will investigate this issue and contact you at the first
opportunity.

Thank you.”

UPDATE: August 17, 2009 @ 4:25pm

I am trying to be as patient as possible, I will give JSkit Echo until midnight than I will pull the plug on the plugin and move on, as much as I appreciate the reassuring response I need to see some results.

I thought the tech at Disqus was terrible, but at least I was able to merge my comments to the Disqus system. If I can’t get the comments merged into Echo there is really no reason to even have it, pretty or not.

UPDATE: August 17, 2009 8:48pm

Well since I haven’t heard back from JSkit I decided I would jump on and shoot a quick email over before I take this to the next level, haha. Next level whaaaaat. Just ask Big T, ok I am gonna stop. I shot over  a quick email before I put this to bed and get back to the old system until I find a WordPress threaded comment plugin that can get the job done. Here’s my email to the head tech and Chris.

Ok just looking for an update or an answer from someone, it’s been 24hrs and honestly everything is exactly the same and Im getting pissed off.

If JSkit Echo is that good than someone needs to get my comments moved or admit that the comments can’t be moved for whatever reason, that way I can move on an so can you guys.

I am being more than patient but if this isn’t gonna happen let’s stop pretending it is and let’s move on so I can find a solution that fits my blog.

EJ

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