Laughinglizard

Anon, I used w.bloggar myself to test the problems dicussed in this thread (latest version, downloaded yesterday) . When I post with w.bloggar and the default comment option set to open, the comments stay open on my posts. You might be using an older w.bloggar version.
I am starting work on an XML-RPC based blog posting application for windows. This application will you set your own RPC custom methods with help files suggesting different XML-RPC entry points for different applications (thus letting you post to multiple blogs from multiple vendors with the same post). Scheduled beta release is a months away though. 🙂

SG, the update issue takes a couple of minutes (took mine quite a few minutes the first time) to sync, patience worked for me that time 🙂 The code gets a little convoluted and time dependant because of the XML updates from Blogrolling. Is your file gettings updated? Check the time stamp on your updates file. If not, you might have a problem.
Ajay, I fixed the links list to my satisfaction. Check it out at http://dinki.mine.nu/weblog/ and if you like it, here is what you do:
Replace your links.php under the wp-links folder with the text from the following file: http://dinki.mine.nu/weblog/b2-img/links.phps

Good question, I might retool the function to get that right. I have been wanting to implement that myself, but that waited because of the font size issue. I dont want to fix it in the CSS (which you could do) because I am using that nesting elsewhere. Look for a hack/fix later tonight or tomorrow on this thread.

At this time, I use a javascript refer script which keeps track of hits on a page by page basis. However, as I have my permalinks setup to point to a single post and associated comments, it almost acts like a popularity rating of a particular post. The code is real simple, (from another javascript coder) but uses text files to keep track of visits. Here are some of the items I believe are important to my blog tracking (in no particular order):
1) Which search engines and which keywords
2) Which posts get the most attention (possibly a popularity count, no of direct hits, no of hits referred to by the main blog, –more– clicks)
3) Highest referer count from…
4) Hits to main blog by day, month and year
5) Incorporating Alex’s “since last visit hack”, post and comment count
and finally…
6) Some way of tracking a hit into a blog. Let me explain myself on this. As we already know how many times an entry has been accessed, I think it would be really interesting and useful to know entry and exit points for a certain visit. Do most people come in through the entry page for the blog or through a search engine into a category, or directly to a post? (this is very true for my weblog tools blog, and I modify the index to be more post centric than main blog centric) I second Matt’s idea of having a wp-refer included in every page. This file could grab HTTP_VARS as and when they appear. In my idea, when a visitor enters the page, an entry for the user is created in the database and is not ‘expired’ till a timeout occurs (which would be triggered by another visit by someone else after the timeout period). This also gives us the power of providing the returning user with useful tracking and follow up information on their next visit, maybe a customized bread crumbs of sorts.
I know this is convoluted, I have been working on OpenGL all day and my mind is all GLed up, so please excuse my thoughts 🙂 I would be glad to explain myself further or help out . Thanks for reading thus far.
Peace.

Well, one quick solution is to change the default post comment settings under default post options (under the admin page) to “open”. w.bloggar would just use the default settings, which would leave comments open. I could rewrite the blogger.newPost method for xmlrpc.php, but it would cause problems because w.bloggar does not allow modifications of their xmlrpc method calls. There would also be other problems with compatibility as this “b2 legacy” xmlrpc has well documented methods which are often used (and xmlrpc arguements are positional, thus picky).

It is very difficult to judge what you are talking about without looking at your CSS and index.php. How about a link to your CSS and your blog as it stands now?

iewihs: sounds like you have a systemwide issue. Are you running any firewall software or any extra browser additions (such as speed doubler or something like that?) Older proxies might cause problems as well because of cache/cookie refresh issues.
theweb: I write to a bunch of different WordPress blogs, all running different versions of WP. I dont have the problem that you mention. If the problem persists, tell us a little more about your setup

Apologetically,I have to bow out of this topic for tonight, I have a test tomorrow … anyone else willing to help?