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The ComLuv network is here! (for a limited few) (for now)

I sent out a mass email to commentluv members asking who wanted to be a beta tester for the plugin and there was a MASSIVE resopnse! awesomes, I luv the commentluvvers (and some luv me back)

I also asked for beta testers for the blog side of the site too, this will take time as many of you already have blogs but I’m certain it will grow as time goes on because of the features of a full WordPress 2.7.1 blog and the ease of importing from other blogs. I’m still keeping the site to manual blog activation only for now until I can get the new version of commentluv running on the Mu server fully. When that happens, I’ll see how it performs on the sub blogs and then open it up for beta testers.

Take a look at this site, I only activated it an hour ago and loonook has already imported an entire blogger blog and got it looking great!

go give Good gaming blog a visit and say hi !
http://goodgamingblog.comluv.com

If you would like to have a new blog (or another one), or you’d like to try out WordPress 2.7.1 without having to ftp a whole load of files to a server you need to pay for then let me know by visiting the ComLuv site and leaving a mesage on the post requesting beta testers here http://comluv.com/dev/site-updates/looking-for-first-beta-testers/

I think FiddyP will be put to bed, this site and the old commentluv is running on a semi-dedicated server which regularly drops connection and has emails bouncing all over the place so once I have the scripts all on the new server, this place might be switched off. Shame to waste all that PR but, hey, it’s only a bit of google juice

The new site is literally a few tweaks and geeks away!

here’s what the front page looks like so far.. and the dashboard

(look familiar? )

I’ve also written the first post and started on the categories. I’m going to be pretty busy the next few weeks filling up the content for the faqs and such (you could say I’m faqing busy!) teehee, nearly swored.

no.time.to.post.more

must.finish.site!

It’s happening, it’s really going on right this minute. The new CommentLuv site and plugin are literally 2 weeks away (sooner for some).

I’ve made an announcement on the main CommentLuv site and suspended member registrations until all the existing subscribers and members have been imported to the new site. I will try and move everything else without causing any major disruption to normal use.

This is the culmination of 2 years worth of updates, improvements and masses of new learnings. I was able to bring commentluv up from a humble wordpress only plugin to a combined site and multi-platform utility that got used by thousands of blog owners and (literally) millions of people every month felt a little bit of luv.

Now, CommentLuv is used on WordPress, Blogger, Jskit, Haloscan and more will come when I release details of the API . When that happens, there wont be a commenting system out there that I wont try to code a CommentLuv plugin for! I’m sure there are some geeks out there that’ll be able to use the API to create their own versions for whatever platform they can imagine too so the chances are that if you didn’t have CommentLuv before, you will be able to get it soon!

Some Fancy Features

Free WordPress 2.7.1 Blog with plugins
Every single existing and future member of CommentLuv will be able to create their own WordPress 2.7.1 blog with plugins like CommentLuv already installed. All will be hosted on the new server and all will be free for any member to use!

Multiple Sources
You will be able to register up to 5 sites with your account and retrieve posts from any and all of them when you comment on CommentLuv sites

Premium Features
As well as the whole host of blogging tools available for free, there will be some fantastic features such as a full newsletter/autoresponder package that can be integrated into your blog to provide feed subscriptions, newsletters, broadcasts and more. All with full open and click rate statistics, double and even triple opt-in. Live statistics on bounces, opens, clicks and forwards. Pie charts and graphs updated in real time. There’s even more to see here!

Please be patient

This has turned out to be the biggest personal project I have undertaken and it wouldn’t have been possible without the huge assistance from Ron and Andrea (http://ronandandrea.com) who took care of making the WPMU site and new CommentLuv API to my sometimes semi-coherent specifications!
The finishing touches are being done now so I will need your patience as I fill the site with the content that’ll be needed for instructions, tutorials, videos, faqs, support tickets, forums and all the other things that are bound to turn up over the next 2 weeks.

Get to be the first!

You will find out when I’m ready to start issuing invites and preliminary accounts if you’re already a commentluv user. If you’re not, you can enter your details here and as soon as you confirm your subscription, you will receive an email when I open up the site for pre-launch beta users. There will also be news of how you can download the very latest version of the plugin before anyone else so you can be the first on the new list of active sites. Oh the joy!!

There are an increasing number of support tickets coming in asking, “why am I getting a name lookup time out” .

This is a cURL error that happens when one server tries to read the response of another servers’ page. Like when CommentLuv asks feedburner for your feed. Sometimes it can be a temporary thing, all of a sudden you start seeing that error but you haven’t changed anything.

This happened to me once when I was parsing the contents of a php script I have on another server, it worked for months without fail so I couldn’t understand why it was failing now. A couple of days later, it started working again.

Turns out, my hosting company for the script being parsed changed the ip of the server at the time of the failures starting. I didn’t think this could make any difference because my other script uses the url and not the IP but the hosting company tells me that the server doing the fetching was using an old DNS that hadn’t been updated with the new servers IP’s yet.

When I changed server for CommentLuv the last time there were a few people getting these errors.

Conclusion, I think Google have done something with the feedburner servers and that’s why so many of you are seeing the error. Please give it 48 hours so that IP’s and DNS’s can catch up and it should go back to normal.

My solution was taken long ago, I switched off my feedsmith plugin. I use the wordpress built in feeds.

Did you know that anyone can view the wonderful array of feeds you get as default in WordPress? You can see a feed for just one category here just by adding /feed to the end of a category url .

My blog tools category has a url of

http://www.fiddyp.co.uk/category/blog-tools/feed

If you update your feed location, you also need to update your feed url at the commentluv site. That stores the last successful feed location for you so visit the commentluv “claim your site” page after you log in and check “your feed url” to see if it points to the old feeds.feedburner address.