All Narfed Up photography and words by Bryan Villarin

You know I use Bloglines. However, I still find it a hindrance to subscribe to comments for a specific blog post using RSS.

I tried coComment a long time ago. I didn’t like it. (Is it better now?)

Teach me something. Do you subscribe to comments? What the easiest way?

I love subscribing to comments with e-mail. The WordPress plugin that accomplishes that is Subscribe to Comments by Mark Jaquith. It rocks. As a commenter, it’s the easiest thing to check the box before I submit my comment.

If you like that, Comment Email Responder allows you to respond to a comment in such a way that they know it was specifically intended for them. You click the envelope next to the commenter’s name, fill out your reply, then submit your comment. That’s really simple, too. For one of my posts here, one commenter has replied multiple times — rather than just one and done — and I’m sure it I owe it to that plugin.

I want need to make sure it’s simple for you to keep track where your conversations. Shouldn’t you do the same?

What else can you integrate into your blog to promote more conversation?

Craig (NuclearMoose) left the internet. He’s right in basically all his statements about WordPress. I don’t frequent the forums, except for an occassional problem.

…a pause and retooling of the WordPress community resources are long past due.

If Matt Mullenweg, Ryan Boren, Dougal Campbell, and any other WordPress developers have been ignoring whatever suggestions Craig has been making, I hope they don’t continue to do so. If they haven’t been ignoring them, but just don’t know what to do, I think it’s fair if they can at least comment something about it. It’s more for whoever steps in to take Craig’s place - I’d hate to see them get so overwhelmed that they leave as well.

WordPress information is really scattered. People need to use the resources the community has setup already - the Codex and Plugin Repository - and limit their blog to, at the most, plugin and theme updates.

Diane commented about this, and I think it fits perfectly.