04.18.2006
CAPTCHA on comments, and a round of bug fixes
Posted by Michael Sippey in Announcements
This evening we added an oft-requested feature to TypePad, and cleaned up some of the bugs and annoyances that have been bothering you...and us!
First, the feature: you can now require unauthenticated commenters (who don't sign in through TypeKey) to pass a CAPTCHA test before their comment is posted to your blog. The CAPTCHA (a ""completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart") will help prevent automated robots from posting comment spam to your blog. We have more feedback management features in development to help you control the comments and TrackBacks on your blog, and will be rolling those out over the next month.
And here are some of the bug fixes I'm sure you'll be interested in learning about:
- We fixed an issue where our QuickPost screen wasn't automatically grabbing Amazon's product identifier (ISBN on books or ASIN on music). So you can now once again QuickPost to your reading and music lists with ease.
- We fixed an issue with our WYSIWYG editor and Internet Explorer where the editor was adding some extra (and unwanted!) style declarations to blockquote tags.
- Commenters can now use the "strike" tag in comments, if your weblog is configured to allow HTML in comments.
- We fixed a bug where the time displayed when comments are previewed was incorrect.
- We added support for the popular "m4v" format for videocasting. If you upload an m4v file into your post, your RSS 2.0 feed will now properly add that file as an enclosure. Go forth and videocast!
We have plenty of features and fixes in the pipeline, so stay tuned for more...
