ClickComments Logo Optional & New 3D icons

After getting lots of blogger feedback we decided to make the ClickComments logo optional. Even though it is designed to draw more attention and increase reader interaction, some bloggers would rather not have the logo on there. Other bloggers really like the design. So we decided to make the choice up to you.

To spice things up a bit we have also introduced some stylish 3D icons. We hope you like them. You can log in and change your settings to play around with what they look like on your blog.

Please tell us what you think.

The ClickComments logo

Some of you have been asking why there is a ClickComments logo on the ClickComments widget. Some thought that it was a branding exercise. This is not what our motivations are. The goals for the new version of ClickComments is to increase reader participation further. There has been academic research that shows that images of faces draw human attention. Our usage of a face in the logo was to draw attention to the ClickComments widget so that readers will interact with the widget.

If you think the logo contrasts too much with your template, then please choose the grey theme. That is more neutral and should blend in with more template. We chose the default green theme because our postreach logo is green and our website is green.

PostReach GuestPost service discontinued

For those of you that have used our GuestPost service, we would like to thank you for using PostReach GuestPosts. However, today we discontinued the GuestPosts service. We decided to focus our resources on improving PostReach ClickComments to have a greater impact on the blogging experience.

ClickComments makes the blogging experience more engaging for both bloggers and readers. Its recommendation feature tells readers about your other posts that might interest them. This should keep them on your blog longer.

We encourage you to use ClickComment. Please try it out http://www.postreach.com/

Keep blogging,
The PostReach team

Introducing ClickComments2.0!

We are excited to introduce you the new ClickComments. In the last two months, we have been listening, talking, observing and analysing what both bloggers and readers want. We think we have made a major improvement in the service.

What's new?

Post Recommendations: which tells readers about other posts in the same blog that might interest them. This should keep them on your blog longer.

Customization: We have reduced the number of icons based on reader feedback. We have introduced optional negative icons. Users can also customize the color of the ClickComments box.

Please check out our new website for more detail: http://www.postreach.com/

Comment artwork

A few days ago I came across this cartoon of a blogger finding no comments on their blog.

It is by PinoyBlogero.

Gnomedex 2007

I made it to Gnomedex. Everyone I talked to said that each year Gnomedex is getting better and better. The presentations were inspiring, someone even asked if I had icon stickers to give out. Next year I will bring 'inspiring' icon stickers. I met some fun and creative people throughout the event. I did a quick podcast interview over on Capture the Conversation. Adam Metz over at LaunchSquad introduced me to my interviewer, Kris Smith. I stayed around to listen in on a few other interviews.

ClickComments on Expression Engine

We are happy to announce that we now support Expression Engine. We will continue to add support for more platforms. Thanks for your patience.

Daniel in Sweden with an 'insightful' tshirt

Daniel Lampinen
Originally uploaded by postreach

Our second photo just came in from Daniel in Sweden. Insightful seems to be a popular icon.

ClickComments on DotClear

We are excited to announce support for DotClear! Big thanks to Olivier GIRAULT who helped us on making this happen!

We will continue to work hard on supporting other platforms. Thanks for your patience!

Brano in Stupava

Brano in Stupava
Originally uploaded by postreach

Brano is the first blogger to send us a photo of himself in one of our tshirts. He is in the center of Stupava, Slovakia in front of a beautiful church.

We are happy to see that the sizing is correct. Many of our bloggers had to look up the sizing conversion for US sizing.

Clickcomment in Latvian!

Big thanks to Inga who translated ClickComments to Latvian. She has a very cool english blog other than her Latvian one, which we understand and enjoy :-)

ClickComments in Thai

Big thanks to ìNice who translated ClickComments into Thai! We are excited and thinking that we may need a business trip to Thailand?! :-)

ClickComments on Drupal blogs

We have just added support to the Drupal! Big thanks to Alexei V. Lazhanev who actually built the Durpal modulefor us!!

We will continue to work hard on supporting other platforms. Thanks for your patience!

The first Tshirt photos coming in

Brano is the first one to receive his tshirt. We are waiting for further photos of him at a local landmark.

ClickComments on MovableType,b2evolution and Tattertools

We have just added support to the following platforms:

MovableType (big thanks for the help from afterhourspub)

b2evolution (big thanks for the help from absolutelytrue)

TatterTools (big thanks to Hina who actually built the plugin for us!!)

We will continue to work hard on supporting other platforms. Thanks for your patience!

finally, TSHIRTS!

We finally finished custom making the tshirt for all of the great bloggers that helped us translate our widget and create new plug-ins. It was quite fun choosing the design and figuring out how to custom make each one. Time flies when you are having fun. And we had tons of fon. Here is a picture of the first one we made in Portuguese for Lucas.

We would also like to thank:
Pablo
Brano
Saso
Pigazine
Simos
Nikos
Andrei
Emmanuel
Maurits Burgers
VioryDaniel
Alessandro
Mert
Dan
Lucifr
SideKick
Nasiruddin
Frank
Cain

It is amazing to see the different address formats from around the world and realize that it all works out just like the languages.

New production infrastructure is LIVE!

Our new production infrastructure is LIVE! Yay, all new servers and a much more scalable environment. We are excited!

What does it mean to you? It means the ClickComments load time and response time will be much faster!! Also, this new environment will allow us to react on increasing capacity much faster in the future to support the high leverl service.

Do you see the difference on your blogs? :-)

Upgrading our whole infrastructure

Due to the increasing number of users, our old servers simple can't take it anymore. We are dumping the old servers and moving onto the new infrastructure. The new servers are here! Yay! We are taking down the whole site to migrate to the new servers.

The process will take a few hours. We apologize for any inconvenience.

ClickComments will start showing up on your blogs as soon as you are done!

ClickComments widget in Russian/Cyrillic

Thanks to Dan we have one of the most popular languages in the world: Russian. Dan covers the development of credit cards in Russia. It is always interesting to see how credit is used in different countries.

Dan, send us your mailing address.

ClickComments building?

It seems that this building liked ClickComments so much that they decided to put icons on their building. I'm just joking. But this is what our office could look like one day:


Thanks to Maurits Burgers for the find in the Hague, Holland.