One In Jesus

I’ve been experimenting with the ability to subscribe to comments in a given thread. Here’s how it works:

* Underneath each post, there are links to subscribe to comments on that post either by email or RSS feed.

* If you select email, you’ll be sent an email asking you to confirm your subscription. If you don’t respond, you’ll get nothing else.

* The email may get trapped in your spam filter, especially if you use a “white list” filtering system — meaning the confirmation email will wind up in a folder called “Junk” or “Spam” or “Deleted.” Fish it out and hit the link to confirm the subscription.

* If you don’t receive a confirmation email, and if it’s not trapped by your spam filter, try again and make sure your email address is correctly spelled.

I’m still looking for a way to allow email subscriptions for all comments without having to subscribe post by post. There’s already a button at the top of the Home page that allows this for those subscribing via RSS, but email seems to be less flexible.

The commenting software I run, called DISQUS, doesn’t always email comments that are posted here. I nearly always does, but lately I’ve noticed some exceptions.

I usually read and respond via email, because I find that the easiest way to keep up, and it lets me sort comments by topic. So this is a major annoyance.

I don’t know exactly what the problem is, and so I’ll be experimenting a bit. I do have a working theory: I’m guessing that comments of over 1,000 words don’t get emailed. They get posted on the site, but aren’t sent to email subscribers.

Now, that’s just a guess. In the mean time, if you post a long comment, please break it down into multiple comments to stay under the 1,000-word limit, and I’ll keep studying the issue.