Capra hircus is now feedback-friendly once more. The comments plugin for Blosxom has been installed, configured, and hacked. comments itself is a modification of Rael Dornfest’s own writeback plugin (which Capra used before), hacked to add comments and a little more efficiency.

That, of course, wasn’t good enough for Capra hircus’ high standards. comments has been hacked to protect email addresses from spam, to help you fill out mailto:s and http://s on the posting form, to filter out most HTML, to get rid of the empty-link problem, and to log IPs. Using a combination of manual text-editing and some automation provided by comments, I converted all my old comments (which used a dysfunctional and incompatible format derived from the writeback one).

I’ve also added an invitation to the bottom of articles on the rss91 feed (which, non-intuitively, is an RSS 1.0 feed) to comment on this site, because I and my server logs are relatively certain the only entity that reads that feed is the LiveJournal syndication bot.

Also, to continue the tradition of telling you about things you didn’t need to know, I implemented a quick flat RSS .91 feed of recent comments in order to further my progression toward omniscience.

Thank you and enjoy.