I got some emails asking me why the “comments” feature is closed in the Studio83 Blog, and so I decided to post about it. Mainly, the problem we have with comments is our beloved spam. As years go by and technology advances spam seems to be appearing everywhere. I get hundreds of spam emails daily in my inbox, and even though Outlook 2007 does a good job moving them to my Unsolicited Mail folder, I still have to manually check that nothing I wanted or needed was sent there by accident.

The same happens with Blogs!. I know there are now some methods to prevent blog spamming, but given we’re redesigning this blog next year to become a more open design community, I thought we could live without the “comments” feature for a while. If you’d like to communicate with me, please use the “Feedback” form. I usually answer everything but in the blog, so that other visitors like you can receive my answers.