I’m going to try using Pibb for comments for a while. It’s a live web-chat which uses OpenID for authentication, which most people will have already, after all, you can use your AIM account, WordPress.com account, LiveJournal … Or you could use your Yahoo! login via idProxy or your Jabber (or Google) account via XMPP South Africa or sign up for a free OpenID from http://myopenid.com/ or https://pip.verisignlabs.com/ or http://ClaimID.com … I could go on, but this is really just a test post to see if Pibb commenting is working.
Edit I took the Pibb comments off for now.
The fact is that it’s just not up to snuff right now. The wordpress plugin itself required quite a bit of wrangling (read “rewriting”) to get it to work at all, and then once I got it working, it was rather disappointing. I had to manually rewrite the “comments” portion of my template to use Pibb instead of my current system, and when I did I still wasn’t satisfied.
- It loads purely via Javascript, which means the comment form shows up late.
- If you’re not logged into Pibb, you can’t see any existing comments.
- You must have an OpenID to even see the existing comments.
- Pibb gets extra information about my readers and me.
So instead, I’m just using OpenID for the regular comments. I think I may choose to have comments without an OpenID emailed to me instead of being displayed, but for now I’ll wait and see.
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Here I am, helping to test.
I don’t see any obvious mechanism for using my OpenID, though. It looks like a plain comment system?