WordPress.com - Comment Replies via Email
While the Automattic crew was in Colorado last week we were working on new features and tonight we’re opening a beta for the one of those - comment replies via email. This is a new capability that we’ve added to WordPress.com that allows you to reply to a comment simply by replying to the comment notification email that gets sent out to post authors when someone leaves a new comment. Here’s a quick video that shows how it works:
To start with we are calling for beta testers. If you want to get in on the beta leave a comment on the announcement post specifying what the URL of your WordPress.com blog is. We’ll be adding users to the beta until 7pm (Utah time) Friday 24 October 2008.
I have a personal attachment to this feature, Barry, Jon Fox (from IntenseDebate) and I worked on this while in Colorado. So I’ll be keeping on eye on how the beta testing goes.

Awesome news, Joseph! You’re on fire lately! Is this only for Wordpress.com blogs? Also, you should be sure to talk to the FriendFeed guys about integrating this.
Jesse Stay
23 Oct 08 at 11:35 pm
@Jesse Stay -
Thanks. Yes, it’s only for blogs hosted on WordPress.com.
Joseph Scott
23 Oct 08 at 11:42 pm
[...] to the various posts, soon users will be able to comment on Wordpress.com blogs, and when they comment, the blog [...]
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23 Oct 08 at 11:56 pm
anything to make life simpler is good with me…
Chuck
24 Oct 08 at 10:29 am
This is awesome, just bummed didn’t see it til today…can’t wait;O)
grayroots
28 Oct 08 at 9:30 am
I’d like to be part of this beta test too.
DimoniPedraLlarga
28 Oct 08 at 3:52 pm
The period for adding blogs to the beta has already closed. We’ll make another announcement when this feature has been enabled for all WordPress.com blogs.
Joseph Scott
29 Oct 08 at 10:49 am
I definitely would like to be a part of this beta test! (Or if truly closed… when it goes live…)
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Dave Glenn
29 Oct 08 at 9:20 pm
How cool is that! I want to try it.
Susan
susan
31 Oct 08 at 7:52 am
We’ve closed sign-ups for the beta, but we’ll eventually be making it active for all blogs.
Joseph Scott
1 Nov 08 at 10:21 am