Comments by Haloscan aren't working today.

I added Haloscan comments last week, which I basically really like. But their server seems to be down today, and when that happen loading my blog gives lots of script errors. And as someone who supposedly makes his living do web coding, I don't ever want people to see script errors. :) So I took them off, at least temporarily.

Maybe I'll try them again later, but I think I'll probably just move this to MoveableType sometime this week. I've been wanting to do that anyway. Blogger is great, but it does have its problems. And I think it'd be better if the blog and the comments were all on the same server anyway. That way it's either all there and working, or it isn't. It's too bad though. I actually got my first comment over the weekend. Darn.

Some people say one shouldn't criticize free services like Blogger and Haloscan, and that I should pay for the pro versions if I want better service. Well, maybe so. But I think things should work properly. If the free versions don't work, then I just assume that the commercial versions also probably don't work well either. If you can't do something right, then you shouldn't do it at all.

And I've also learned that paying for something is no guarantee of it working right either. I've paid for both Radio and Manila, and I can't say they're any less buggy than Blogger, which is free.

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