Comments on: Post2Peer Wordpress plugin

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:09:59 +0000

Yann, first, thanks for your quick reply and also thanks for the possibility of creating site filters in version 2. I’m looking forward to it! Meanwhile good luck with the development and feedback. I think this plugin is an important contribution to social networking.

By: Y.Dubois

Y.Dubois — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:30:18 +0000

@Richard:
Thanks for the encouragements. As a matter of fact, I am working on this concept of choosing/registering/agregating your own selection of sites/rss feeds. This should be version 2 of the plugin. But right now I still have some work to do on performance and reliability issues of the beta version. So hang on a bit more and you should get something very close to what you suggested

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:00:16 +0000

I like this concept, except, I don’t want to have your database choose my related sites. Is it possible to create an exclusive list of network sites only? Say I have 10 domains, all serving related content. I only want to show related articles to these network sites. We would need a filter to “return results only from these sites” [domain_list]

Any thoughts on this, Yann? Many thanks for an inovative idea!

By: Y.Dubois

Y.Dubois — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:38:40 +0000

@Barry:
You wouldn’t believe how many WP sites out there have their language settings wrongly set or not set at all. This will eventually force me to use language detection routines to check the language of every post with heuristics (the way Google does it). That said, you must have gotten unlucky because more than 90% of what I see in the English section is indeed in English (and 90% of the overall content is in English anyways). Thanks for the feedback. I’ll be working on improving language detection accuracy.

By: Barry

Barry — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 21:04:05 +0000

Good idea, but 90% of the links were in Spanish. I ditched the widget ASAP!

By: Y.Dubois

Y.Dubois — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:47:46 +0000

@Mark:
In fact, most of the present “member sites” are not yet active community users: the plugin has only be available for about 3 days. It’s growing fast (172 downloads already), but we need thousand of member posts to get a chance of finding any common interests in the content.

Here’s my little secret: to kick-start the content sharing system, I had to “force-enroll” about 350 sites among the users of my other plugins a few weeks in advance.

Now, the database is scanning about 1500 sites/day and indexes more than 15000 posts in a dozen languages… Let it grow a bit more, and you’ll see more and more active users installing the plugin (hopefully!)

Anyways, thanks for participating and sharing your feedback, I really hope this will become something great thanks to people like you!

By: Mark Leonard

Mark Leonard — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:04:22 +0000

most of them only display banner and no content