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Some of you may have noticed that about a week ago, I installed the new Echo commenting system, if you didn't then you probably need glasses more than I do (LOL!). It's actually the JS-Kit commenting system that has now been upgraded or something like that to the Echo system.

I've been searching and finding ways to make my comment replying something like what Wordpress has, you know, click the reply button and reply directly to the person who left the comment. So I scoured the net for hacks and stuff on metal candle sconces and came across JS-Kit.

I first messed around with JS-Kit way back when it wasn't even popular and hardly anyone was using it. I found it annoyingly crappy back then cos the layout for it looked real bad. I'm one person who likes my comment system to follow my blog template as close as it can.

Then everyone got onto the JS-Kit band wagon and it became quite popular. I still found it a bothersome thing to use. The layout still looked crappy then there was the problem of missing comments and the comment box taking ages to load. I stayed away from it. Then the upgrade to Echo came along and I said, why not, since the layout did look much better.

After signing up and installing the widget and all that, I had the comment system up and running. Then came the problems. For one, I still find that it takes a little too slow to load the comment box. But I could live with that as long as it didn't take too long to load. I've been to blogs using JS-Kit where the comment box takes forever to load, which simply turns me off from commenting.

Like I said, I could live with the slow loading time and the layout was pretty decent. Then today, I logged into my blog and found that I had duplicated comments which really pissed me off. I refreshed and it went back to normal but now I had missing comments. I could feel steam coming out of my head. Looks like the problems of missing comments and duplications still exist even with the upgrade.

So I did the best thing humanely possible to keep my sanity intact. I removed the blasted thing! Now I'm back to using my normal native blogger commenting system again which really works pretty well. I don't know what came over me to try out Echo but I've learned my lesson. And I'm not saying that Echo is lousy, maybe it's just me, but I seriously could do without the stress

Now if only someone from blogger can just tweak the layout so I can have a decent commenting system like what Wordpress has, I'll be a very satisfied man :D