Atomic Insights Haloscan Commenting System Now Replaced by Echo

ByRod Adams

I received a notification this morning that my long time commenting system – Haloscan – was going to be shut down in two weeks. The company was purchased quite some time ago, and I knew this day was coming, but I am a long time procrastinator who hates messing with things that are working well enough. I have now taken the necessary steps to switch to the Echo commenting platform; supposedly all of the existing comments are now being transitioned.

I think I have made the settings selections on the new system that will most closely resemble the experience that you have been getting using Haloscan, but only experience will tell if those setting selections are the right ones. I have continued to allow comments to be posted without moderation in order to keep the conversation happening while I am too busy to moderate. That selection does not and will not stop me from deleting off topic or inappropriate content when I have the time.

Please do not hesitate to provide me with feedback over the next few weeks.

Rod Adams
Rod Adams

Rod Adams is Managing Partner of Nucleation Capital, a venture fund that invests in advanced nuclear, which provides affordable access to this clean energy sector to pronuclear and impact investors. Rod, a former submarine Engineer Officer and founder of Adams Atomic Engines, Inc., which was one of the earliest advanced nuclear ventures, is an atomic energy expert with small nuclear plant operating and design experience. He has engaged in technical, strategic, political, historic and financial analysis of the nuclear industry, its technology, regulation, and policies for several decades through Atomic Insights, both as its primary blogger and as host of The Atomic Show Podcast. Please click here to subscribe to the Atomic Show RSS feed. To join Rod's pronuclear network and receive his occasional newsletter, click here.

7 Comments

  5. The link for comments is a Javascript to force you to pop up a new window. It means you can’t right click on it to open it as a tab in the same browser. Feels like 1993 all over again (I know Mosaic was cool for its era but … sigh).

  6. Tabbing down to the comment field doesn’t work as before, you must click in the field now. As far as I can see, there is no email update option to be notified when new comments are made, that’s not so good. The built in blogger comment system has that option. There doesn’t seem to be an option to pair a website to the commentator either. Maybe this needs some more configuring. Can the font be enlarged?

  7. The Facebook connection and other Open ID connection types are a nice touch. There’s some other stuff here to like as well, but that lack of an email notice option…we’ll see.

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