Call for features
Sometime soon I'm going to sit down for a couple of days and start coding up a 1.1 release of Annotations. Do I have a userbase? I dunno. But, hypothetically, if you were someone who used it instead of one of the big weblog programs written in perl|php|python|anything-but-C, what features would you like to see?
I welcome comments, not only for features but to reassure myself that people actually read TSFR and don't just get here browsing for poachable bandwidth.
Comments
Oh, right now comments are just one big file with no sort of control in them. That's one of the things I want to change; I want to put filters in that annotations will run before posting, and I just want to pass them a file with control information, like
A:author-name
I:author-IP
U:author-user-agent
M:author-mail
W:author-website
O:ok to publish
C:content follows to EOF
And then I can stuff a "moderated comments" field into the article header to determine how OK is set.
And now I’ve written the code that does individual comments, so lets see if it works…
Comments are closed
Well, I don't actually have anything resembling a web log, and I might not, but if I were to start one, the three things that'd worry me the most are, more or less, comments, comments, and comments --
Can comments be queued so that they don't display until after they've been reviewed?
Can comments be managed? (whitelist by unique IDs, blocking domains, switched on or off by posting, etc.)
How much markup and what kind do comments allow?