A lot of the blogs I read use Haloscan for their comments. Many of them are reporting problems with Haloscan in the last 24 hours or so.
Via Crooks & Liars, I stumbled upon a solution which I reprint here as a public service announcement:
Haloscan Fix it guide
Bloggers, go into Beta features in Haloscan and in
the middle of the column it says Spam filters. Just say "no" and your
comments will come back up. Hat tip Jane for the info.
I’m not a Haloscan user, so this doesn’t affect me at all, but I know a lot of bloggers are, so I hope this workaround helps you out.
Thanks for getting the word out about the workaround. Jeevan (aka “the Haloscan guy”) has fixed the underlying issue that caused the glitch, so people can turn the (beta! beta, people!) spam filter redirect thing back _on_ and comments will work as normal.
Will!!!! I saw you on I Love The 80′s 3-D!!!!!11
How awesome is that. You never even mentioned it in your blog. What’s up with that?
Good Times! Good Times!1
Thanks for the heads up…now I have something to try the next time my site is slow (not that I get many comments, mind you….).