BB's commenting system will temporarily pause
From Boing Boing's community manager, Teresa Nielsen Hayden:
Boing Boing is about to launch a bunch of new features, which you'll be hearing about later today.UPDATE: There has obviously been a delay in launching the new features. A few scurrying bugs emerged but our team of intrepid exterminators is on the case. Meanwhile, the original comment sign-in system will remain active. Stay tuned.
But first: at about 12:45 PM (PDT), before we start the transition to the new version of Boing Boing, our old commenter sign-in method will go away. As of that point, we won't want any more commenters to sign in using that method, so we'll shut down access to mt.cgi. However, boingboing.net itself will be accessible the whole time.
The upshot: commenter sign-in will be down for about ten minutes. The weblog itself will stay up and stay readable the whole time.
In the aftermath of the changeover, there'll be a period during which new posts by the editors and new comments by the readers will take longer than usual to show up. Please don't be alarmed. It's a strictly temporary condition.
More to come...
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...What's the reason behind this? Is BB having second thoughts or getting cold feet about allowing comments again?
"The upshot: commenter sign-in will be down for about ten minutes. ... It's a strictly temporary condition."
Um, no. We're just pausing the sign-up functionality for about 15 minutes while we bring the new features live.
If we were, suspending comments for ten minutes would be a strange way to deal with it. The suspension is just a side-effect of rebuilding the site.
Well, I guess we need to vent now, if we need to. Damn, I can't think of anything! Wouldn't you know it? I guess it's just performance anxiety. Oh well.......
I call your bluff! It's not 1:04 PDT and I can still comment! So there!
...Otay mea culprit. I missed the "sign-up" part, and thought you were disabling comments altogether. Wah.
I decry this blatant attempt to... err... no i don't.
I am disappointed about the failure to initiate the planned commenting shutdown. What am I paying for?
Oh that's right, it's free.
A confirmation email containing user name and password upon signing up would be a fine thing to have. I had to abandon my first login due to forgetting my user name.
Can you turn off everyone who doesn't read the full-text of what they are about to comment on's ability to comment?
"Don't i-taze me, bro...!"
Please no avatars! Please.
spiffy!
Any chance we'll get OpenID support?
Jason (11), I believe we'll get that right after the stupidity filter project bears fruit.
I've never gotten over the disappointment of learning that error-correcting modems didn't even spellcheck, much less correct more substantial errors.
Real soon now.
As our tech guy Jonathan Schreiber put it, we ran into some showstopper issues yesterday afternoon.