WordPress.com getting new features

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It seems like Matt Mullenweg and team are adding features every few hours lately. For those of you who are on WordPress.com, check out the “Dashboard.”

Since I went off the grid I noticed a new “Tag Surfer” and “My Comments” features. Tag surfer is cool — it shows me posts other people have made using the same tags I use. Very likely that we’ll have content that’s similar to each other. I can add new tags too and subscribe to content from other WordPress.com users.

Next to that is “My Comments.” It lists comment threads I’ve participated in. This is very interesting, but I wish I had the ability to pull out spam I see here. Some spam has gotten through WordPress’ excellent filters (the best in the industry — by far) but it’s old, so pulling it out takes too many steps. For those who have no clue what I mean, if you are inside WordPress there’s a “Manage” page, where I can look at my current comments. On that page I can kill spam with one click. It’s awesome. Makes it like playing a video game.

Some things. Both of these show that WordPress.com is becoming a community. Spam, for instance, doesn’t look like that, but if I kill spam on my blog it’ll kill it on yours too (if I prove to be a good spam killer).

I don’t want to talk too much about how Matt is using the community to kill spam cause I’m scared that the spammers will get smarter as a result (they will anyway, but might as well not help them along the path they’ll find) but it is interesting what he’s doing.

Anyway, just wanted to say thanks to the WordPress folks. I’m definitely not regretting my decision tonight to join up.

It’ll be interesting to compare it to Windows Live Spaces and to Six Apart’s new Vox service (I’m getting tons of email from people joining that service so know it’s gaining in popularity very quickly).

But, the short of it is that WordPress.com is going to pick up steam once new users see these features.

I came home to find 3,569 spams removed for me by WordPress.com’s spam filter. It is so superior to other blog comment engines that I’ve tried it isn’t funny. At least in my own experiences. It’ll be interesting to watch how good Vox is.

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14 thoughts on “WordPress.com getting new features”

  1. Matt and the team are doing a fantastic job, and I am more and more happy to have my blog hosted on WordPress. I have other blogs hosted on my own server, but the wordpress service is so reliable and simple that I now prefer it to my own hosting.

    Re spamming service, it is just magnificent. One day last week about 50 spams in rapid succession got through, because they had obviously ound a workaround. I killed them all, but the key is WP learned from that and they never returned.

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  2. Matt and the team are doing a fantastic job, and I am more and more happy to have my blog hosted on WordPress. I have other blogs hosted on my own server, but the wordpress service is so reliable and simple that I now prefer it to my own hosting.

    Re spamming service, it is just magnificent. One day last week about 50 spams in rapid succession got through, because they had obviously ound a workaround. I killed them all, but the key is WP learned from that and they never returned.

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  3. For those who don’t want to use Akismet (the WordPress.com spam filter system), try SpamKarma 2.

    It’s a free plugin and does a great job of eating spam.

    I chose not to use Akismet simply because I didn’t want to register an account with WordPress.com

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  4. For those who don’t want to use Akismet (the WordPress.com spam filter system), try SpamKarma 2.

    It’s a free plugin and does a great job of eating spam.

    I chose not to use Akismet simply because I didn’t want to register an account with WordPress.com

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  13. In some senses, you already have access to features that most other WordPress.com users do not considering you have a different theme with unique functionality.

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  14. In some senses, you already have access to features that most other WordPress.com users do not considering you have a different theme with unique functionality.

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