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What? Huh? New Commenting System? EVERYBODY PANIC

What? Huh? New Commenting System? EVERYBODY PANIC

By September 21, 2012 Miscellaneous 0 Comment

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It’s true, Topless Robot has a new commenting system, as many of you have noticed (and sent me bitter, bitter emails about). The system is called LiveFyre. The good news is that those of you who login with Facebook, Gmail, Google or Yahoo should remain completely unaffected (if you want a special username, register with the My Voice Nation thingie). The bad news is that if you had a Disqus account, it — and all the likes you’ve accrued — are now dead, as far as TR’s concerned. Sorry.

This was not anything I had any control over, but feel free to heap profanity on me as needed. There is a plus side to LiveFyre; it wasn’t done just to infuriate you. The new abilities include:

? SocialSync
When conversation is happening about an article on Facebook or Twitter, you can now see that conversation within the commenting thread. You can also tag and import your friends from Twitter and Facebook within the comment stream yourself.

? True Real Time
You can see who is listening to a conversation and read comments in real time, making it easier to jump right into the discussion.

? Notifications
You can choose to be alerted via email when someone replies to or likes your comment.

? Follow Your Friends
You’ll be able to see what your friends are saying and doing on our publications and Voice Places now with this one account.

But the real bonus here is that all those replies to comments that got lost and shuttled randomly around the threads? Well, that shit should finally be taken care of. I don’t know about you, but I’m happy to trade my likes in for a commenting system that actually works like it’s supposed to.

Of course, this presumes LiveFyre is going to work like it’s supposed to. If you say any problems or wackiness this weekend, I’d appreciate you dropping me a line. Again, use as much profanity as you feel necessary; I can handle it. And again, my apologies for any inconvenience. I’m really hoping this will be worth it in the long run. And if not, TOTALLY NOT MY FAULT.

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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.