As a previous Radio user I speak from experience when I say that the worst thing abourt userland is their approach to comments. Poor loading speeds, no email / RSS notifications (for commenters like me) and the cumbersomeness of it all.

Don’t get me wrong, without Radio I wouldn’t be doing this, but in the end I shifted to WP (which is much more flexible & developing) and the more I use it and think about how Manila currently works… the more I beg the world to throw up another good enterprise blogging system… so thatUserland will sort Manila out, if nothing else.

Cheers, James

/Real/ comments are always welcome! I don’t consider your very useful information to be spam.

If Userland develops any solutions, I’m sure we’ll get the updates. I have faith in the Userland Guy (or whatever it is we call him) and our server administrators.

I commented a little too quickly. The option I mentioned above is only for bloggers who want comments turned off. So, it will solve my problem, but it will not help you … It seems that the folks at Userland are working on a solution to the larger comment spam problem. But, I wonder if we will get the updates?

More information at Manila Newbies and at Scott Young’s Radio Weblog.

I promise that this is my last comment on this topic. I don’t want to spam you :-).

I’ve only recently starting getting comment spam with WordPress but it is growing very quickly, if it grows as fast here, deleting them by hand is going to become a real pain, hopefully someone will write an Add-on for Manilla before it gets too bad?

Thanks, Vernica!

I tried that and all of my comment links vanished (eeeks!), so I don’t think that’s the solution I want for this blog.

If another Manila user wants to try it, it’s under Preferences –> Radio Hosting at the top of the page  http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/yourdirecto…) .

I read about a possible solution to the Manila comment spam problem today, and I am testing it out now. Apparently, switching the “Radio Hosting” preference to “no” will stop the flood of automated comment spam. I’ll see what happens.