JS-Kit Echo commenting platform updated

Third party comment platform provider JS-Kit (we use it here at The Inquisitr) has shipped a new version of the service. Among the new stuff is the ability to use your Friendfeed information as a login as well as having your comment automatically posted to Friendfeed.

In a post to the company’s blog Chris Saad outlines the new stuff as well as fixes and improvements for the platform. One of the other new options is the Comments in a Pop-up which will let you pop out the comments on a post and follow along with any real-time conversation for the comment.

Other updates from the last month

Bugfix – Ban manager is not showing Banned users in the Ban list
Polish – Yahoo and OpenID login windows made smaller/neater
Bugfix – Improve the JS-Kit logo with Transparent PNG
Feature – Added “Via Tag” on Items
Feature – Event supplier: JS class for delivering real-time events from server
Feature – Mini Profile on hover over of avatars or usernames
Feature – “From” field for the new “Leave a comment” form
Feature – Inline/Popup comments
Feature – Paypal integration for pricing page/install workflow
Bugfix – Blogger sync improved to install stalling if it encounters a comment with too many characters
Bugfix – Support for WordPress’ inconsistent data in post’s GUID attribute
Polish – Temporary warning and route to support for WordPress blogs with large comment databases
Bugfix – Tool for draining RabbitMQ backup queues for suspended comment syncs
Bugfix – OAuth-based sync can fail by network/timeout error
Bugfix – Step 2 of Blogger Install Wizard cannot display more than 25 blogs
Bugfix – Blogger wizard doesn’t normalize site names
Feature – Ability for users to login and publish to FriendFeed
Bugfix – Blogger import does not set correct account settings for the site
Site Change – Site Changes for Echo Public Launch
Polish – Admin dashboard updates to support payment workflow
Bugfix – Yaws is not restarted on crashes
Bugfix – Can only open main profile 1-3 times in IE6/7
Polish – Update JS-Kit favicon in the From field
Polish – Update text message shown to user when registration is required to reflect latest user experience
Feature – Allow admin users to turn login options on and off
Bugfix – TinyMCE works incorrect under certain page layout/div configurations
Polish – Support for WhiteLabel on the Echo skin
Bugfix – EPB ‘owner’ permission incorrectly behaves like a site moderator
Bugfix – There are no comment URLs in the moderation section
Bugfix – Temporarily override avatars=”false” until Gravatar support is improved
Bugfix – IE 6/7 users are not able to comment on the Comment Form
Feature – New Admin Panel Message – Echo Release Notification
Bugfix – Comments/Echo is rendering in German in the latest FF
Bugfix – Under certain conditions, comment data seems to repeat
Bugfix – Under some conditions, comment count incorrectly returns 0
Feature – New version of EPB
Polish – Improved help text on admin dashboard for user blocking/banning
Feature – Make “Echo” the new default template for all new users
Feature – Added a white Background to the Echo Stream
Bugfix – Under some conditions, moderation commands from the admin dashboard were not committing
Feature – Echo event counter to update with event updates (real-time counter)
Feature – Moved action scripts for comments widget to erlang (internal changes)
Feature – Comments – Follow and Add images panel
Bugfix – Possible vulnerability in our sites management (no we wont tell you what it was hah)
Bugfix – In some cases when there is more than one JS-Kit widget on a page, we return incorrect permission information
Task – Merge From/To, Miniprofile and Follow panel into Production/Echo
Bugfix – Prevent automatic reply loop in reply-by-mail
Bugfix – Authentication form layout issues
Feature – Update OAuth client to support spec v.1.0a
Bugfix – Blogger gadget display glitches in IE associated with the Blogger login event
Feature – “To” field for the new “Leave a comment” form
Bugfix – Current EPB implementation ignores wrong “mac” value
Bugfix – Ratings. Server error if rating’s path attribute has a percent sign
Bugfix – Unable to cancel authorization prompt
Bugfix – Advisor – JSKitLib usage refactoring
Bugfix – In some cases, EPB information is lost by polls widget
Bugfix – In some cases, Domain attribute dosen’t work correctly for ratings widget
Bugfix – Subsection Moderation is not supported if the section is defined by Uniq rather than Path
Bugfix – Login process does not complete in Safari 3-4
Bugfix – Repeated WordPress imports result in duplicate sync_peer_X fields
Bugfix – Invalid error message when trying to upload a non existing image file – Reports ‘File too large’ rather than ‘File not found’
Bugfix – Glitch adding new comment with profile open.
Feature – Automatic yaws restarts
Bugfix – Poll not working on GeoCities