Doing the job and doing it well. Minor criticism though.

  • Just gave up on intensedebate after I discovered they were using SQL incoherently and caused a flood of panicked error log messages, I’m glad I found WpDiscuz to do the job well in replacement.

    One slight criticism, though, the color schemes are best suited for websites with a white background. My theme’s with a darkblue background and it caused me a great deal of confusion to adapt the styling options. Some parts are still unfixed, as these are the same css options that describe elements supposed to be of opposed colors when you have a dark background color.
    Hopefully, one day it will be fixed without having to hack code manually.

    Another criticism – look, I’m frank here, I view this as actively constructive criticism -, I don’t like that notifications are sent from my admin’s email addy: that addy is private and not for public display.
    Even weirder, the email addy that is used to send notifications is NOT the email addy of my currently logged in and post creator admin user. It’s the email address of another administrator account O_o
    I view this last elemant as an actual bug, and I wish to see it fixed eventually.
    Why not, for instance, allow to choose the email addy used for this activity.
    EDIT: I investigated a bit, and found this email addy appears in more fields in my database. Not only is it associated to another admin account, but it wp_options, as admin_email, which I traced to the “Email Address” field in the General Settings of the blog administration.
    I still stand to what I wrote, we ought to be able to provide another email address for this, the admin email address is not necessarily meant to be public.

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  • Plugin Author gVectors Team

    (@gvectors-team)

    Hi Sabinooo,
    Thank you for this detailed review. We’ll work around these minor issues.

    Thread Starter Sabinooo

    (@sabinooo)

    Hello!

    Something else that I discovered.

    Are users who aren’t logged as blog users supposed to be able to edit their comments ?

    At first, I thought it was included, but I’m not seeing the option anywhere, when I visit and comment as a simple anon ?

    Plugin Author gVectors Team

    (@gvectors-team)

    Guests are not allowed to edit their comments. This is an insecure feature, and we’ve not added. We’re planning to add this in future releases. But it’ll be disabled by default. The entire risk (unauthorized editing of comments by other persons) as to the security of guest comments will be with you.
    We’ll make it as secure as possible using cookies and IP addresses, but even this will not make it secure enough.

    Thread Starter Sabinooo

    (@sabinooo)

    I imagine you’ll restrict the possibility to edit one’s own comments by ways of a cookie or something like that, right ?

    If so, this is the same as for the blog admin editing his own comments, this is also a cookie that keeps him logged in as admin.

    Well, just my opinion ??

    If you care for more testing, I have found that logged in blog users (either admin or contributor) apparently don’t receive notification replies, wasn’t it supposed to be default ?

    (not trying to complain of course, but if you care for user feedback, I have some, haha)

    I’d like to add my support for a dark-theme-compatible version of this plugin. It seems to be quite slick (I’ll submit a rating once I’ve had more time with it; just enabled it like 30 minutes ago). I’m having trouble finding the CSS to make all of the tweaks I’d need to make it look natural.

    Would it be possible to add in options (within the “Background and Colors” space in the Settings tab) to modify the “Notify of” drop-down menu, and any other text that isn’t currently controllable? This would also, I believe, include the names of commentaries, timestamp, “Hide replies” text, “Please insert the code above to comment,” “Notify of new replies to this comment,” and possibly others. If not, could you perhaps give instructions for how to make these tweaks in a lasting way (rather than modifying core WP CSS files, which would be overwritten upon WP updates) in your documentation?

    Thanks so much for considering this!

    ~Ryan

    Plugin Author gVectors Team

    (@gvectors-team)

    Please just wait a bit.
    We’re preparing a new UI/UX for wpDiscuz. It’s supper customizable and can be used for dark themes very easy.

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