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Another Success
Erica successfully imported her comments into her MovableType blog.
She informed me that HaloScan was going to charge $10 for her to export her comments. Glad I could help.
Zack had a suggestion: He (and Erica) were confused by the way the email addresses looked in the database. HaloScan has them “encoded” on purpose to try to avoid spammers. I wrote code to undo that, but did not execute it because my wife (and I) thought it was a good idea to keep them encoded. However, after Zack’s email, I thought it would be cool to add a radio button the import comments page allowing you to keep them the way they are, or to unencode them. Hopefully I’ll get a chance to make that change.
2 responses to “Another Success”
Thanks again, Gabe. The whole process was pretty smooth (once I remembered to rebuild my site).
And I just wanted to clarify that $10 pays for an upgraded Haloscan membership, and one of the benefits of upgraded membership is the ability to export comments.
Just thought I’d clarify a point you made:
We don’t charge $10 just to get comments exported. That would be too much like blackmail. The $10 is for a premium membership that offers a bunch of other features including comment export.
If we put comment exports in the basic service, our server would come grinding to a half very fast (with 3 million comments and 35000+ users, even a couple people exporting at once would make the load average shoot up fast).
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