DISQUS

Matt · 4 years ago

I posted another update on the entry, hopefully making it clearer! I'll try to keep the conversation there so everyone can benefit.

Aaron Brazell · 4 years ago

Thanks for the update, Matt.

J.M. Hardin · 4 years ago

As I posted over on Matt's blog, I activated the plugin, but I can’t see where to get the key, which makes it pretty useless. WP doesn't host my blog and there’s nowhere on WP.com to sign up to get a key. I give it an “A” for concept, but a “D-” for execution. Or am I misunderstanding something?

IO ERROR · 4 years ago

A couple of clarifications:



Akismet is free for personal use. You need a wordpress.com account (and API key) to use Akismet. However, wordpress.com blogs are already protected by Akismet. So you only need to install Akismet and use the API key on your own personal blogs.

Aaron Brazell · 4 years ago

Yeah, realize there's a difference between a WordPress blog and a WordPress.com blog. WordPress.com blogs are not self hosted. You can sign up for an invite right on the front page of wordpress.com. If you were one of the folks that got an invite early on, as I did, then you can sign into it and go to your profile page where the API key is listed at the top.

J.M. Hardin · 4 years ago

Yeah, I requested an invite yesterday to check it out for a friend and I'm wondering how long it will be before I get my invite. As it stands now I'm pretty unimpressed with this plugin.

Aaron Brazell · 4 years ago

It might be a bit. I don't know how quickly they are sending out invites. It's not an automatic thing, I don't think.

Amit Gupta · 4 years ago

J.M. Hardin, FYI, you can get a WordPress.com blog without an invite as well. So you don't really need to wait for the Golden Ticket to arrive in your Inbox!! ;)

J.M. Hardin · 4 years ago

Ah, part of the push to download Flock. From everything I see from Flock there's only one reason for me to get it, and that's the WP.com blog. Since I already run Firefox (and the latest nightly branch build at that) I don't see any real logic in downloading something that duplicates so much code. And they have a page on their site that won't open in any other browser, not even with an error message? That's worse than Microsquish and IE. Yeah, I hate Flock even more now.

Aaron Brazell · 4 years ago

So, download Flock, get your API key and uninstall it. Simple as pie.

J.M. Hardin · 4 years ago

That's just it, Aaron. I don't want to get Flock just for the API key. In fact I just blogged that I don't think Flock is worth it. I can wait to run Askimat.

Aaron Brazell · 4 years ago

Okay, whatever floats your boat. No one is cramming anything down your throat.

Ph.uck.D » Let my people · 4 years ago

[...] but, that’s not the point! i mean, Let Me Edit This Page! word dot com is cute and all (in a use free now and probably get flocked later sorta way), but how about being able to edit your own layout? and only eight wordpress themes, what’s up with that? i dunno how long my people will stand for it. you hear? [...]

Lorelle · 4 years ago

I'd just like to add my 14 cents. Akismet is still "new" and as far as I'm concerned, still in beta testing. There are some little oddities that need to get fixed. By limiting access to the wordpress.com users, those who signed up a while ago to help test and get this started, and now Flock users, the testing continues before opening it up to the general public.



I'm never thrilled with these exclusive sign up things and tend to stay away from them when possible, but the gimmick of "invites" and "exclusive" continues to work. Hype and being "one of the first" motivates people to try just about anything. I feel like an old fuddy duddy, but I like waiting until everyone else has suffered the bugs before I plunge in.



But hype sells. And like they say, if it works, don't fix it.

Aaron Brazell · 4 years ago

Lorelle? You never have that much to say! At least not 14 cents worth! :)



I, of course, concur.

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