As you can see movabletype.org has been getting its fair share of comments and community participants recently. Its just so good to see users as engaged as they have been. And it is so a good feeling logging into Movable Type and seeing our dashboard light up with so many comments.
metisinternet
June 24, 2007 11:20 PM | Reply
The movable type team are doing a great job at involving the blogging community. I can't wait to see where all this collaboration will lead.
demonsurfer
June 25, 2007 3:51 AM | Reply
Yay TypeKey rego works :) thanks!
LJ has a really great community, particularly with comment/post notifications and 'friends lists' etc. If we could hook into that somehow...
Nei
June 25, 2007 2:04 PM | Reply
Integrating the MT-Notifier into Movable Type 4 would be great, it is unbelievable that Movable Type doesn't have such basic functionality out of the box.
clarknova
June 25, 2007 4:04 PM | Reply
A contact form would be moew useful in my opinion, many cms's offer this out of the box and it doesn't matter what you think about contact forms, many sites and clients require them.
Byrne Reese
June 25, 2007 4:24 PM | Reply
@clarknova - Couldn't agree more. There should be a stand alone "Contact Us" form feature or plugin.
I am curious though, do you think MT's built in comment form (especially when used on "pages") serves this purpose to some extent?
Sara
June 25, 2007 4:43 PM | Reply
I'm not clarknova, but I guess that form does server the purpose to some extent. It would be interesting to hear how Elises use of an additional blog just for a "Contact Us" form has worked for LMT. I am seriously considering playing around with that kind of setup once I go live with MT4. So handy having the comments right there in the application and not risking losing mail and such :) And it's dead easy linking to the form with just the native MT tags now we've got built in multiblog functionality.
clarknova
June 25, 2007 6:37 PM | Reply
Byrne,
I haven't tried the comment form on a page like you suggest, but I definitely will, that combined with e-mail notification could do the trick. I think there is a plugin "EntryPost" that can serve this purpose with some work. I was thinking more in a ready-made contact form(maybe mt-tags? a widget?)that could let every user have its own conatct form now that we have author profile pages. ;)
Cheers!
Sara
June 25, 2007 7:39 PM | Reply
Re Contact form:
Would like to see specialized pages for such things. eg MT comes with a contact us page pre-installed. Of course this introduces the need for being able to set the page order differently than what we're able to do now, since I'd like to have that link at the bottom of the list.
demonsurfer
June 26, 2007 3:12 AM | Reply
I created a separate weblog on MT3.5 to use as a contact form and it worked great - scripts I've tried in the past always ended up being abused for spam, so the MT alternative was a relief. I imagine with Pages, this should be a cinch - effectively the same thing without having to create an entirely new weblog. I'll have to test it later when I have a spare moment (which seem to be few and far between lately).
Nei
June 26, 2007 3:23 AM | Reply
You could easily have a contact form by creating a second blog where you make all comments mandatory for review before publishing and modify the template that says "Your comment is being hold for approval" with "Thanks for your feedback".
However, the comments feature alone can never serve the idea of feedback, since it is much more potentially public than people submitting feedback might want to be.
demonsurfer
June 26, 2007 5:46 PM | Reply
Yeah true Nei, and how you suggest it be set up is exactly how I have it set up in 3.5. For 4.0 it would presumably be the same, unless we were able to change comment options at entry level, which is unlikely and, imho, not worth the time to add as a feature.
Nei
June 27, 2007 4:54 PM | Reply
I thought I had already commented on that, but maybe my comment got lost?
I was wondering whether there'd be any chance you could fix the comment feed to link/guid to the comment permalinks instead of the threads?
Dave Stillman
June 28, 2007 2:37 PM | Reply
@Nei: The comment feed has been fixed and takes you directly to the comment now.