As you may or may not have noticed, the comments feature on this blog has been nonfunctional over the past month. As of December 23, the third-party system I used, YACCS (Yet Another Collaborative Comment System), discontinued its service, but it’s only now that I’ve had a chance to clean up my template and enable Blogger’s integrated comments system. The existing YACCS comments have been archived but I’m not sure if there’s a way to import them back into Blogger, or at least an easy way that’s worth my time; only a few recent postings have drawn comments at all.

Currently, the new settings for the comments feature do not require any registration, only word verification. Nor are they moderated, though I’ve obviously reserved the right to delete offensive or irrelevant comments if necessary, and to reach out to smite you in your chair if the offense is grave enough (ok, getting carried away there). I’d prefer not to have to take a stronger hand in managing this feature, but I’ll do so if necessary. Either way, I hope the new system serves this site’s readership well. Please note that there is some delay between posting comments and seeing them on the site, a consequence of going through Blogger’s big, big system.

Also, another one of my third-party add-ons, Blogrolling, is temporarily kaput. This controls the link list you see at left. There’s a lot of housekeeping which could stand to be done — links added, deleted or updated — once it comes back online. Apologies for the inconvenience in the interim.