WordPress comments are missing critical functionality to really embrace engagement and community — there are no notifications when your comment is approved or gets a reply, which prevents any kind of continued discussion.
In this video I’m demonstrating an update to the Comment Approval Notifications plugin (which hasn’t been touched in 10 years) to extend the notifications to comment approvals, replies and new comments in general.
Jetpack comments has some of these features but I wonder if there is a place for a decentralized solution?
An alternative to email is the Fediverse which supports replies across WordPress sites and other ActivityPub clients. In addition, it also handles notifications nicely in the mobile apps.
What do you think?
Testing replies to WP federated content. This should show up in the comments of the post.
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