links for 2009-11-05

"As you may have noticed, this week we've been changing the way commenting works on the site. The tech-literate among you may be interested to learn that the main change is that comments are now handled server-side rather than client-side". A long overdue change on guardian.co.uk - we are collecting bugs on this thread

Malcolm has already been delving into the source code of our comment changes to look for the search engine implications - and spots them already being indexed by Google. Those Googlebots don't hang around, do they?

Good bit of customer service here - the migration to the new My SUN platform took a bit longer than expected, and so there is an apology and a temporary forum to keep users in touch whilst the process gets finished. Neat.

From the comments: "I got great pictures from a transmitter in France, Lyon, watched the digital TV for 90 minutes, went funny on 83 minutes, but back to normal on 90 minutes, so funny..."

"It was a matter of genuine surprise to me that the Mail's reaction to the pictures of Wayne and Coleen Rooney leaving hospital with their new baby wasn't a headline screaming 'But where is Kai Wayne's poppy?'"

Same as it ever was.

"Our digital essay writers offer Neal's Yard Remedies some advice on how it might have handled the explosion of communications that appeared on the Guardian's website in May."

I like this line in the report: "Strange apparitions have been making the news a lot lately". Isn't that only because we all think they are good Diggbait?