Postmatic does a fantastic job of making it easy to engage with posts via email.
We want to bring the same commitment to quality and open standards back to the web-based commenting as well. For everyone, for free, starting today.
Epoch – Our next big thing
Epoch is Postmatic’s new little sister. It installs in a few clicks from the WordPress repo and overrides the comment template that came with your theme. It provides an amazing commenting experience to your users while improving site performance at the same time.
The best commenting experience on the web
Comment forms and comment display are often neglected by theme developers. We’ve been there ourselves. The functions and templates involved in WordPress commenting are complicated, frustrating, and no fun to work with. Every day we see fantastic themes with ridiculously poor commenting experiences. So that’s the first thing Epoch fixes.
Once installed and activated Epoch overwrites your native comment templates with a simple, elegant, and highly usable experience.
Is it commenting? Or is it chat? It’s hard to say.
No more submitting comments and watching the page reload. All Epoch comments are submitted via ajax and post instantly in their proper place within the conversation.
And, as it should be, new comments from other users show up like magic. It doesn’t matter if they are posted from the web, or from email. The conversation is instantly updated without reload.
Commenting that speeds up your site
We nailed it. Epoch is hands down the fastest commenting system available for WordPress, all the while supporting page cacheing and CDNs. Epoch comments lazy load into a placeholder container only when needed. This means your post will load instantly, your comments will load instantly, and your server won’t blink. Your full SEO mojo will stay in tact as well.
Success through compatibility
Epoch is built for compatibility. Just like Postmatic. It uses fully native WordPress commenting, plays nicely with most all other commenting plugins, and employs WordPress coding standards. Use it with your favorite social login, voting, moderation, and other commenting plugins.
Epoch is fully integrated with Postmatic 1.4
When running Epoch along with Postmatic commenting truly becomes fun again. The comment stream is updated in realtime with comments being posted from web as well as email. Subscribing to new comments is quick and simple while users are intelligently invited to become site subscribers as soon as their comment is posted.
Perfect commenting for all
Epoch is Free, open-source, and available now to all self-hosted WordPress sites. We thought it was time web commenting was done right.
Try Epoch right now.
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WordPress Tavern did a piece on Epoch just this afternoon which goes into more detail as to why we built it and where it is going. It’s a fun read if you are geeky about commenting.
Tomorrow will be the last segment in our 5 part series of what’s new in 1.4. We’ll go over the little stuff, bug fixes, and some pretty cool template changes. Thanks for reading!
And hey. If you’ve been using the beta of Epoch and have a good feel for it please leave it a review on wordpress.org. We need to squash some of the early-beta review trolls.