I’ve installed a commenting tool as a complement of Blogger called blogKomm developped by Holger Kreis, since March 28 2004. At this time, Blogger didn’t integrate any commenting functionnality. This incredible lack was first filled in April 2004. I didn’t move to Blogger because the comments are hosted by Blogger and I don’t like that. I want to have my data under control and to be able to have a full access on the raw logs for the statistics. Without a dedicated hosting – as far as I known – it is impossible to know exactly how many visitors and pageviews you have on your blog because of the access on your RSS feed which are only visible in these raw logs. My blog and website are hosted by OVH, my web hosting provider.

I made the step this morning and I installed the version 2.1 (beta) of blogKomm. Holger integrated some very interesting functionalities and the protection possibilities against comment spam is really better than in the version 1.7 I used before. This is perhaps the only positive effect of spam: it forced me to take the time to install the new version ;-) Which was quite easy.

blogKomm features

blogkomm integrates the reader’s comments into your blog without any pop-ups. Besides this you have different features coming along with that, like

* different notification services
* preview feature
* user remember feature
* quick-Editing admin-tool
* recent comment-list
* multilingual interface
* a setup and configuration tool