Off on a comment By popular demand, I’ve re-enabled comments. I have a bunch of reservations about the default settings of Movable Type’s comment system, but having gone at it the way I usually go at a complicated computer problem, which is to say banging my head on the monitor until blood flows, I think I’ve fixed some of the stuff that bothered me.

Most importantly, you can now “subscribe” (and, of course, unsubscribe) to comments on a particular post. You can do it even if you never post. Thanks to ScriptyGoddess for this extension to Movable Type, which I’ve modified a bit to suit my own notions of what is and isn’t intuitively obvious.

Also importantly, comment threads no longer become invisible when the post to which they’re attached scrolls off the front page. Posts on my monthly archive pages now contain links to their comment threads, just as the front page does.

I’m not going to go back and turn commenting “on” for every single old post, but I’ve done so for everything posted since May 1, and when I’ve recovered from today’s exertions, I’ll go back and find all the old posts that actually had comments, and make those comments visible again. [05:46 PM]