DISQUS

paulthewineguy · 1 year ago

Hi, can I modify your script? I wanna translate it in Italian language.

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

Go for it!

slippylane · 1 year ago

Reading back over this page again is quite interesting. Two things stand out:

First - Pat, your level of attention and response to our problems with your scripts are something that many developers could do with learning from. Don't get me wrong, there are some great people out there, turning out an awful lot of fantastic code, but this kind of dedication to the debugging process is still a rare thing.

Second - Disqus totally rules anyway, but in a situation like the one we had here, it really comes into it's own!

And hey, I think we've all learned something about just how much work goes into these scripts, eh?

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

This was my first post that used Disqus, and I'm *so glad* I implemented it
when I did. There's no way I could keep up with this using Bloggers comment
system (even with the fancy new iframes). I've already sent Daniel Ha an
email expressing my gratitude.
Thanks for that, Slippy.
I understand what it feels like to run into problems and not find anyone who
cares. My Google Reader is full of comment feeds I subscribed to and have
yet to get a response. I don't want to be that guy. I put enough time into
writing this that it's more than worth a little extra time to make sure it
works.
Besides, it's really cool seeing something that *I wrote* pop up on blogs
throughout the FriendFeedosphere.

HighStreet5 · 1 year ago

Hello Pat. Thanks for the code very useful.
I need some help tho, the integration was successful however, if a post doesn't have "like" or "comments" yet, it produces a JS error as can be seen here -> http://highstreet5community.blogspot.com/2008/0...

Any clues? Thankies

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

That is odd.
What browser are you using? I don't seem to get an error message (I tried FF3 and IE7)

Joe Dawson · 1 year ago

I was unable to locate ~ <div class='post-footer'>

So placed the code just above that for Disqus and got this message when viewing my blog -

TEMPLATE ERROR: Invalid data reference post.url: com.google.layouts.framework.widgetview.GoogleMarkupException: No dictionary named: 'post' in: ['blog']

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

Tell ya what, Joe. This type of thing is kind of hard to diagnose without seeing the code you're working with.
Post your blog URL and I'll have a look and try to figure out what's going on.

Joe Dawson · 1 year ago

Thanks Pat you're a star, my URL is http://www.joedawsons.com

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

Joe, try pasting the code right above the line "<div class='meta'>"
Let me know if that gives you the same error, if any.

Joe Dawson · 1 year ago

Hey Pat it allowed me to save and gave me no error message but it doesn't give me the widget!

Joe

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

It will only appear on posts that have likes or comments on FriendFeed...
...like this one http://www.joedawsons.com/2008/06/firefox-aimin...

Joe Dawson · 1 year ago

Excellent Pat, thanks for all your help with getting this in place!

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

One more tip...
You've placed the CSS line inside a comment, so it isn't styling the box like it should. To fix this, just move the code up one line so it says
@import url("http://www.pathawks.com/ffbadge.css");
/*

Joe Dawson · 1 year ago

I have made the change and looks much better, would this have had an affect on my page format as it wasn't paragraphing properly and I had to add [br][br] to format?

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

I'm not sure I understand your question.

Joe Dawson · 1 year ago

Nevermind it's all working now, I think that the issue was where I didn't have this set up correctly and the CSS line was breaking the page layout. All is fine now, thanks again Pat!

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

Glad to hear it.
Keep me posted if you have any more problems.

Joe Dawson · 1 year ago

Nice work on this though Pat sorry for just typing the problem I am experiencing in my previous post. Been waiting for this for some time especially as the Wordpress users have had the ability to post direct to FriendFeed for some time now! Look forward to your response!

JC John Sese Cuneta (謝施洗) · 1 year ago

Hi pat!

Question, is it hardcoded to blogger/tumblr only by any chance?
I have other blogs using b2evolution.net and tried incorporating your JS script, but won't show up although seems correct.
Here's the sample post: http://games.gameshogun.ws/5gametitles/it-s-off...

tnx!

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

You are correct, this does not work with b2evolution.
What's more, it looks like the only way to make it work would be through a plugin, which is beyond the scope of my time/energy.
FWIW, the reason it isn't working is because the Yahoo Pipe needs the post permalink URL, which requires some PHP trickery. I googled around for five minutes, but I couldn't find a way to insert the URL into another element's attribute. If you (or anybody) can figure out a way to make it work, let me know and I'll send some link juice and namaste your way.

JC John Sese Cuneta (謝施洗) · 1 year ago

Hi Pat!

It works! I guess the "like" and "test" comments took some time to appear via API calls. ^_^ Check out the sample post: http://games.gameshogun.ws/5gametitles/it-s-off...

^_^ I guess it's not hard-coded ;)

I'll post about it and send ya the post-link, this week. Sleepy already hehe, it's 12:09 AM here MON, Philippine Time ^_^

Now I think it will work with all the other blog platforms... like you said, just the permalink setting.

Brian · 1 year ago

THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK!

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

Wow, thanks Brian.
It's really cool to see people actually using this thing :-D

Phil Glockner · 1 year ago

I added the tumblr code to my tumblelog (http://flipside.scribkin.com) and, although I am not getting any errors and I see the code when I view the page source, it does not appear to be showing up anywhere, that I can tell.

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

Sorry, this is my fault.
When I first posted this, I screwed up the code for Tumblr. This has sense been fixed in my post.
To fix this, in your template replace the line
<script expr:src='"http://pipes.yahoo.com/pathawks/ffbadge?_render=json&_callback=ffbadge&service=tumblr&who=scribkin&link=" + data:post.url'></script>
with
<script src="http://pipes.yahoo.com/pathawks/ffbadge?_render=json&_callback=ffbadge&service=tumblr&who=scribkin&title={Title}"></script>

This should fix the problem. If not, let me know and I'll investigate.

Phil Glockner · 1 year ago

Yeah... not so much. Still nothing. I am using the Disqus plugin as well, hopefully that isn't causing some sort of interference.

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

Well, I'm not sure if this will work or not (inspiring confidence, I know) but do me a favor and give this a try...
<script src="http://pipes.yahoo.com/pathawks/ffbadge?_render=json&_callback=ffbadge&service=tumblr&who=scribkin&link={PostID}
"></script>

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

That didn't work either, huh.
I think I know what the problem is, but give me a minute to figure out how to fix it.

Phil Glockner · 1 year ago

Ok, it's updated now. No difference, that I can tell. Tell me something.
With the Disqus plugin, I had to put hooks in to every post type -- video,
comment, link, etc. Is this not necessary for the ff plugin?

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

No, that's not necessary.
Umm, try to change it again. When I look at your source code, it's still showing the old code. Change the part that says title={Title} to link={PostID}

Sorry this is such a pain :(

Phil Glockner · 1 year ago

Oh no problem. Thanks for all the help! It has been changed.

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

FIGURED IT OUT!
You tried to tie the script to your room on FriendFeed, which won't work. It must be tied to your user account.
So if you change who=scribkin to who=eng1ne everything will work fine. This time I promise. For real. This will work.

Phil Glockner · 1 year ago

Ok! That makes sense. duh. I'm not sure why I even put that in there like that. Trying now..

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

IT WORKS!
http://flipside.scribkin.com/post/39248088/baby...

Dude, so sorry that took so long to figure out. I was seriously pulling my hair out on that one.
Thanks for sticking with me.

Phil Glockner · 1 year ago

No, really, it was my fault.. I actually would have had the filled out correctly, but for some reason I was messing with a couple of different widgets at the same time, and when eng1ne didn't work initially (because of the original code issue) I switched it and totally forgot I had done it.

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

I'm just glad we got it working. That was crazy :)

Phil Glockner · 1 year ago

Yes! It works. I need to mess with the positioning so it only shows up in the single post view, but thanks for all the help! Awesome!

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

If you want it to only show up on post pages wrap it with {block:IndexPage} <script...{/block:IndexPage}

Phil Glockner · 1 year ago

Beautiful. Man, a more helpful developer I could not hope to meet! Thanks so much!

Oh, hmm. That seems to have it only showing up on the main page, and not there on the single post pages. perhaps block:permalink?

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

DOH!
You're absolutely right. Oops.
So much for me being a "helpful developer," huh?

Louis Gray · 1 year ago

I just stripped out my old code and added the new, and it all disappeared. :-/

How do you suggest we proceed? Interested in getting my template as a text file? (Old Blogger)

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

No need to send me your template. Somehow, I posted the wrong code for the "old Blogger."
Just change the line
<script expr:src='"http://pipes.yahoo.com/pathawks/ffbadge?_render=json&_callback=ffbadge&service=blog&who=louisgray&link=" + data:post.url'/>
to this
<script src="http://pipes.yahoo.com/pathawks/ffbadge?_render=json&_callback=ffbadge&service=blog&who=louisgray&link=<$BlogItemPermalinkUrl$>"></script>

Louis Gray · 1 year ago

Great job. I updated my Template, and it appears all is well.

It even works under "stress". Here's an example on a recent popular post:
http://www.louisgray.com/live/2008/06/gray-fami...

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

That's pretty sweet.
Thanks for tipping me of to the flawed code. Now I've officially seen this working on new Blogger, old Blogger, Tumblr, and FeedBurner. Everybody wins :D

Shey · 1 year ago

Great job Pat, thanks for the FeedFlare URL!

Nick Humphries · 1 year ago

Does the FriendFeed widget show itself even when no one has shared a person's link on friendfeed? I installed it on my tumblelog (nicklog.com) and don't see it anywhere. Did I do it wrong?

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

Just took a peek at your code and found one more thing you'll need to change.
I must have been really tired when I posted this, because the code I gave you for Tumblr is totally wrong.
Find the line you inserted <script expr:src='"http://pipes.yahoo.com/pathawks/ffbadge?_render=json&_callback=ffbadge&service=tumblr&who=NICKNAME&link=" + data:post.url'></script>
and replace it with
<script src="http://pipes.yahoo.com/pathawks/ffbadge?_render=json&_callback=ffbadge&service=tumblr&who=NICKNAME&link={Permalink}"></script>

That should do the trick.
Updating the post with the correct code now...

Nick Humphries · 1 year ago

still :-(

odd.

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

I know. There is an advanced option called "Use Descriptive URLs" that causes this. I had it turned off while I was testing, but most people would have it turned on, which prevents matching the URL on the site to the URL in the feed.
Strange folks over there at Tumblr.

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

After a busy morning of Tumblr hacking, we found something that (consistantly) works.
<script src="http://pipes.yahoo.com/pathawks/ffbadge?_render=json&_callback=ffbadge&service=tumblr&who=NICKNAME&link={PostID}"></script>
Hope this helps.

Nick Humphries · 1 year ago

It works!!! :-)

Nick Humphries · 1 year ago

Another question... How do I separate my "Comments" link (for Disqus) and the FriendFeed widget so that they are not touching?

Nick Humphries · 1 year ago

It's separate when looking at it from nicklog.com, but when I go to a post they are squished together.

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

Funny, looks fine when I look at it...
At any rate, if you'd like to space it out a little more, right under the @import... line you added, add the line
.friendfeedcommentslink {margin-top:.5em;}

Let me know how that looks

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

You guessed it, it disappears until there is at least 1 like or 1 comment on your post. Keeps the layout much less cluttered.

Nick Humphries · 1 year ago

hmm, still not seeing it :-(

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

Lots of hacking and I finally figured it out.
Not your fault at all, but Tumblr uses different permalinks in the RSS feed (wtf?) so it isn't able to match them.
This may not work with Tumblr after all.
Umm... anybody know a lot about hacking Tumblr templates?

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

Figured out a hack around. Instead of matching the permalink, we'll match the post title.
In the line of code you just added, replace &link={Permalink} with &title={Title}
PLEASE tell me this works

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

This works. For real. I promise.

Ben Borges · 1 year ago

thanks a lot for this snippets of code :)

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

Not to sound stalkerish, but I just checked out your blog and noticed that the box kind of looked funny.
I took a peek at your code and saw that you put the CSS line inside a comment...
/*
@import url("http://www.pathawks.com/ffbadge.css");

Just switch those two lines around so it would be...
@import url("http://www.pathawks.com/ffbadge.css");
/*

I think you'll like the way it looks a little more after that ;)

Ben Borges · 1 year ago

Thanks a lot for your tip and help !
I did this modif in a minute after reading your blog post,
i agree it's much better now :)

thanks again !

Ben Borges

orli · 1 year ago

Hey,

Should be 'discuss' not 'discus' on friendfeed code... could you fix that please?

Thanks!

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

Oh no! How'd I screw that up?!?
Stupid late night coding sessions.
Anyway, the new FeedFlare url (which has been updated in the post) is http://www.feedburner.com/fb/variableflareunits/GenericFeedFlare.jspx?text=Discuss%20on%20FriendFeed&link=http://friendfeed.com/search?q=${title}%26service=blog%26who=NICKNAME

orli · 1 year ago

Thanks much!!

Noah David Simon · 1 year ago

New Blogger has no <div class='post-footer'> in any template I can see and the script just gives a text error

slippylane · 1 year ago

Hehe, read the comment stream - I made the same mistake! :-)

Noah David Simon · 1 year ago

Expand Widget Templates in Blogger? oh ok if you say so.

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

Found your blog (thanks Google)
After you "Expand Widget Template," try searching for <div class="post-footer"> (with double quotes instead of single).
Everything else in your template looks pretty standard, so if you still get an error message after that, let me know what it's telling you.

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

You're right, it should be easier. Unfortunately, like you said, when people like you and I play with our template (I wrote mine from scratch), it makes it more difficult to drop in code like this.
If you leave me your URL, I'll check out your blog and see what I can figure out.
And what sort of error message was it giving you?

Noah David Simon · 1 year ago

this is my blog http://simonstudiotheatre.blogspot.com/
and this is my code
http://www.simonstudio.com/ark/blogger_friendfe...

it doesn't work.

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

Did you make sure to click the "Expand Widget Templates" check box?

slippylane · 1 year ago

Hey, if you're gonna keep acting that fast on my comments, I ain't gonna complain about the debugging process! :-)

slippylane · 1 year ago

Still nothing, btw.

Here's what the code in my template looks like (except for the bits I imagine disqus will automagically translate)

Incidentally, I've tried moving the @import line in and out of the commented section - no difference to the end result

<head>
<script src='http://www.pathawks.com/ffbadge.js'/>

...

<![CDATA[/*
-----------------------------------------------
Blogger Template Style
Name: Rounders 3
Designer: Douglas Bowman
URL: www.stopdesign.com
Date: 27 Feb 2004
Updated by: Blogger Team
----------------------------------------------- */
@import url("http://www.pathawks.com/ffbadge.css");

...

<div class='post-body'>

<data:post.body/>

<div style='clear: both;'/> <!-- clear for photos floats -->
</div>
<div class='post-footer'>
<script expr:src='"http://pipes.yahoo.com/pathawks/ffbadge?_render=json&_callback=ffbadge&service=blog&who=slippy&link=" + data:post.url'/>

<span class='post-author'>
<b:if cond='data:top.showAuthor'>
<data:top.authorLabel/> <data:post.author/>

</span>

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

Yup, you've got everything right. Yahoo choked when we were changing that code so much, so now it has the wrong version cached. The cache will expire in a little while (half hour or so?) and everything will be fixed.
Check out this page (http://worldofslippy.blogspot.com/2008/04/glimpse-of-paradise-work-in-progress.html)

slippylane · 1 year ago

Wonderful, thanks Pat! I should have thought to check more than just the first post!

Now, how hard would it be to add a text box and submit button to post a comment back to friendfeed? :-)

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

Oh, I see. You just want to slowly replace every element of your blog with FriendFeed ;)
Let me poke around a little bit. To be honest, I don't really think it looks very ascetically pleasing, but I'll see what I can do.

slippylane · 1 year ago

Hehe, not the whole thing, just the comments. Most of my blog traffic comes from friendfeed anyway

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

But what if somebody wants to leave a comment and *gasp* they don't have a FriendFeed account?
You can't just alienate your readers like that.

slippylane · 1 year ago

I already did that by using Disqus, lol

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

IF I put a box at the bottom to post comments back to FriendFeed (and I'm certianly not saying I will), it will only be because you were so cool to help me trouble shoot this bugger ;)

slippylane · 1 year ago

Hehe, you shouldn't cave in to people like me - give us an inch and we'll take a mile!

An option to post comments back would be cool, but at the end of the day, it's your scripts, your code and your property.

Besides, if you don't do it, it gives me an excuse to see if my programming muscles still work enough to have a crack at it myself.

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

Everything I post on my blog is Creative Commons licensed.
You want to play with my code, you're more than welcome :D

slippylane · 1 year ago

Now there's an idea. I might well have a crack at that some time over the next few days.

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

Do it man!
I'd love to help you, too. Let me know if you need advice or anything, and we can beta test it together again. Ha!
:-)

slippylane · 1 year ago

Yeah, I'll do it right after I learn Javascript from scratch.

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

Thinking some more about this, and I'm still not convinced it'd be a good idea.
With Disqus, at least there's a way for non-users to post unverified comments. If your comment system was FriendFeed, there would be no way for them to comment.
Also, remember that my system only retrieves comments and likes for your past 90 blog entries. Post 91+ would loose all comments.

slippylane · 1 year ago

Fair points all. Added to that, the rust doesn't seem to be coming off of my coding skills.

Another great idea down the tube then. Meh.

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

Isn't Disqus working on pulling FriendFeed comments into their system?
You'll get your FriendFeed comments, one way or another.

slippylane · 1 year ago

Disqus is great at the blog end, but let's face it, it fragments all over friendfeed. This conversation alone has about 14 separate Disqus entries in my friends' feed.

Nah, I guess using friendfeed as my blog's comment engine is just not really that feasible. Never mind, I'm happy enough to let your rather excellent script continue bringing friendfeed to my blog.

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

Appreciate that a ton :D
So, this is really strange. It looks like you've done everything right, but it isn't finding the stuff from your feed. Let me poke around a little...

slippylane · 1 year ago

Okay, I can't use this one either. There is no tag in my template beginning with "div class="

[Edit]
Ignore that. Foolish me forgot to expand the widget templates. Duh! Trying again!

[Edit again]
Well, it doesn't throw up any "bad xml" errors when I try to save it this time. Nor, however, does it appear to do anything else.

MG Siegler · 1 year ago

One quick note is that the ampersand after NICKNAME still has to be encoded.

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

Thanks.
It's hard to put format this for a blog, because I have to code it all twice, so it looks like &amp;

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

DOH!
In the script you inserted into the post footer, change "&_render" to "?_render"

This is my fault. Real sorry. Updating the instructions now...

[Edit]
My instructions now reflect this change, so there should be no new problems like this.

slippylane · 1 year ago

Yay. Still can't get it to actually do anything tho. Must be me.

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

DOH AGAIN!
In the same line, change "yahoo.com/pipes/pathawks" to "yahoo.com/pathawks"
It's a wonder I got this thing running on my blog with all these errors :-S
Sorry about this Slippy. We'll get this working yet!

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

I really don't know how I posted this with so many mistakes. Maybe I was really tired. Maybe I'm just an idiot.
At any rate, I really appreciate everybody being so patient and helping me work out all the bugs.
Thanks a bunch.

Boredcollegekid · 1 year ago

It seemed to run fine on my blog for a while just realized it was gone today when someone mentioned it to me. Redid it and still doesn't seem to display :s www.ircfreak.com

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

It will only appear on posts that have likes or comments on FriendFeed. This
is to reduce clutter if there's nothing to show.
It still appears on posts that *do* have comments...
http://www.ircfreak.com/2008/06/why-i-hate-ping...

Boredcollegekid · 1 year ago

ah ok very cool, I seem to have missed that part :\

charlieanzman · 1 year ago

Hey Pat - Now I'm invading your comments. Thanks for dropping by and noticing the code. Really appreciated! Come on over for a hot dog ... They're on the grill :) Thanks again ... Charlie

Noah David Simon · 1 year ago

what would be helpfull is a sample text that worked... so I could just adjust it for my blog. the directions are a bit hard to work with... I would prefer to tweek someone else's code


here is my code
http://www.simonstudio.com/ark/blogger_friendfe...
and the blog is http://simonstudiotheatre.blogspot.com/

Nick Humphries · 1 year ago

Ok,I tried to add it to another blog of mine, http://blog.nickhumphries.com. Not sure if its working.

Last blog, I promise :-P

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

The problem is that you aren't importing *this* blog into FriendFeed.
This script can only find the comments if they're designated as coming from
a "blog," not a FriendFeed link or del.icio.us save or anything like that.
If you started importing this feed into FriendFeed as a blog, and liked or
commented on *those* entries, you would see them come up on this blog.

Nick Humphries · 1 year ago

oops.

bigguyd · 1 year ago

hey, Pat...followed these instructions to the letter...didn't work. my blog is at bigguyd.blogspot.com. Can you help?

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

I was looking at the source of your page, and nowhere could I find the "<script expr:src='"http://pipes.yahoo.com/pathawks/ffbadge?_render=json&..." line. It should be right by the FeedFlare line, but it isn't there. That's why it's not working.

svartling · 1 year ago

This is great, but if I want to use it with a friendfeed room instead, how to do that? Is that possible?

svartling · 1 year ago

If I want the friendfeed comments expanded by default, how to do that?

gigicogo · 1 year ago

Many thanks. Excellent!

JC John Sese Cuneta (謝施洗) · 1 year ago

Hi Pat, this is long overdue, so busy ^_^

------------------
1) After the HEAD element put:
<script src='http://www.pathawks.com/ffbadge.js'></script>

2) Placed the following before or after your first CSS call. (Note: If placed 'after', ffbadge.css won't kick-in for some weird reason, but if it's placed 'before', it causes errors on some themes/skin [not just b2evolution, even on some blogger themes/skins as well].)
<style type="text/css" charset="UTF-8">
@import url("http://www.pathawks.com/ffbadge.css");
</style>

3) Search for: END OF FEEDBACK (COMMENTS/TRACKBACKS) Then after the ?> bit, add the following:
<?php
echo '<script src="http://pipes.yahoo.com/pathawks/ffbadge?_render=json&_callback=ffbadge&service=blog&who=USERNAME&link='.$Item->get_permanent_url().'"></script>';
?>

Done.

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

Well sir, you just blew my mind!
Many thanks!

Bjoern Brembs · 1 year ago

I just tested your widget on a generic page (since it doesn't work on my own blog running on e107): http://bjoern.brembs.net/ffwidgettest.html
It's not displaying anything at all, despite the post I linked to contains numerous comments and likes. What am I missing?

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

Take off the single quotes around the post URL.So the script URL will be
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pathawks/ffbadge?_render...

Bjoern Brembs · 1 year ago

I thought I had already tried that. Alas, I hadn't. Now it works, thanks a lot. I now should be able to get it to work on my blog as well, many thanks!

Pat Hawks · 1 year ago

Weird stuff happens sometimes. Sometimes the Yahoo pipe takes a while to
update. At any rate, I'm glad it works now.
Let me know if you have any issues getting it on your blog.

Noah David Simon · 11 months ago

months later and I came back to reintegrate this onto my blog. installing disqus messed this all up for me and it took me 6 months to put your code back. thanks again Pat

Daan · 8 months ago

Thanks for this great plugin!! Works fine. Blogger should have offered this as a standard plugin. Maybe when Google buys FF, that will happen... :-)

app · 4 months ago

I am having some trouble getting this to work on a Blogger blog. The blog is here: http://allwordyandjunk.blogspot.com/

It's not picking up the comments and likes that are posted on the items here: http://friendfeed.com/allwordyandjunk

Now I added it exactly the same way I did on my own blog, which works quite well on my blog, but it doesn't want to work on this one.

For example, this post: http://allwordyandjunk.blogspot.com/2009/08/i-j...

has a like and a comment here: http://friendfeed.com/allwordyandjunk/04c0086c/...

But you'd never know that looking at the page on Blogger.

Am I doing something wrong? Or does this just not work on group blogs, or not work for feeds posted to a friendfeed group, even though I added the group name in the script so it can find the page?

And if it won't work because it's a friendfeed group, is there any way you can make it support that?

Pat Hawks · 4 months ago

I hate to say it, but you've hit the nail right on the head.
As far as FriendFeed's current API is concerned, there is groups and people are not the same thing.

Yes, it would be possible to add support for groups in this, or a similar plugin.
Unfortunately, recently the popularity of my widget has been declining as better tools have come about.

I would suggest you look into Disqus's reactions feature, or maybe check out Backtype.

Chris Heath · 4 months ago

disqus and backtype aren't available on blogspot are they?

Pat Hawks · 4 months ago

Oh yeah, Disqus is available on Blogger.
We're using Disqus right now to comment on my Blogger blog, aren't we ;)

Chris Heath · 4 months ago

somehow i missed that bar across the top of the page... doh

Ata İsmet Özçelik · 4 months ago

Hay Pat, can you check out my blog and tell me why the table structure is messed up when showing FF entries? blog is http://hepsidetay.blogspot.com