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The only way this can be useful is if everybody has it. Not having it available on Chrome is not a great start.

• Nuzzerino 7y ago
  I fail to see any merit in the claim that mainstream adoption is necessary for a tool like this to have any value. You're not going to be using this tool for synchronous conversations between commenters, or even conversations at all. Any information you leave in the form of a comment is going to matter to the people who visit the site after you. You're also commenting about the website's content in question, not having a soapbox discussion. The tool doesn't need to suffer from the effects of the empty room problem known to social networking, because there is no "social" in this network. Granted, it's going to take something a lot more clever than what's already there to deal with the separate moderation issue.
  • laurent123456 7y ago
    This kind of tool, to make sense, needs to have as many people as possible on it otherwise you'll see no comment on any site you open. You can indeed leave a comment yourself, but probably people won't if they see nobody's ever going to read them. So that's why it's strange that such an extension, which I think does have a social aspect, would ignore 60% of browsers.
    • Nuzzerino 7y ago
      If the data is open and federated (as it should be), it will still be available for ingestion by other future (and past) attempts at the idea. I don't see any fundamental problem with the idea, but understand that it's important to get the details right.
• notopygos 7y ago
  you can install the addon on chrome manually > The extension works in Chrome too, but it's not published to the Chrome Web Store. Why? Publishing any extension there now requires (1) a phone number, to create a gmail account and (2) a credit card, supposedly to deter spammers. However the extension can be installed manually.