Before I go and lock myself in a darkened room for a few weeks to try and work out how to do this, has anyone tried or is it planned for a future release of the plugin?
It's about the only thing missing from AS, so if no-one's doing it I'll have a crack at it. If someone is trying it, then I won't!
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Hi Richard, by default Action Streams actions don't let you have comments, but what you can do (and what I'd recommend) is turning the actions into entries, where you have all the power of MT.
The way to do it is to first (obviously) set up Action Streams, make sure your actions are coming into the system correctly. Then, your AS install should have created a template for you that outputs your actions as a feed. You can then run this feed through the refeed plugin to create entries.
Once they're entries, everything works just like normal MT blog entries. If you want to get fancy, you could have the actions be a separate blog from your regular posts, and aggregate them together using the MultiBlog template tags.
This would be hot and I'd definitely be willing to help you out, Richard, if you needed it :)
Cheers Arvind, I know you are the MT Plugin guru round here!
Not going to be able to start for another 3 weeks as I'm off getting married and driving my way across the states on honeymoon :)
At least i can plan it in my head on the open road :D
Congratulations!!
I don't really want the bloat of putting them all into entries and passing through a feed etc etc. Plus you'll lose the formatting and extra info/fields that you can pull out of the action streams, and I'm using a lot of them!
I was planning on doing it as a plugin to provide simple little comments just for the action stream, basically copying friend feed.
Unless Mark Pasc is off making one, I'll have a crack at it.
@Richard
I've asked Daniel Ha from Disqus if he is planning to support comments based on a unique ID and not a permalink. It's in their pipeline, but has no high priority. So this might be another opportunity in the future. Maybe if we all send requests to Daniel it will climb a little bit on their priority ladder ;-)
Update: Though it is actually not 'officially' possible to integrate Disqus into Action Streams, it seems to be possible with local and hacked versions of the Disqus JavaScript libraries.
Benjamin Golub did the trick on RSSmeme and seems to have Daniel Ha involved. Benjamin integrated Disqus comments though his entries don't have individual pages. So something similar might be working with Action Streams index pages.
But I thought a little bit of this. Actually it is not possible to archive Action Streams. As a result if someone discovers a comment, for example on a Disqus profile page, to an Action Streams that's out of the scope of the index page, the link back would lead into nowhere.
Maybe we should find a way to build daily archives of Actions Streams before we think of comments.
What do you think?