Another week, another batch of exciting features to release!
Single Sign-On
Single Sign-On lets your users sign in to comment using your site's own native authentication system. It's flexible and powerful enough to automatically utilize existing user sessions, creating a zero-friction method for your users to leave comments.
You can read more about how to use this feature here.
We are offering Single Sign-On as part of our Professional plan ($10 / month). Be sure to explore all the other benefits of the Professional plan in our pricing section.
Shadow Banning
"Shadow banning" allows you to secretly block users, meaning that they are not aware that they have been blocked. They can still continue to make comments, but no other users (including moderators) will ever see these comments. This is an excellent non-aggressive method for moderating toxic users who may attempt to circumvent being blocked by creating new accounts.
We are offering Shadow Banning as part of our Moderation Plus add-on ($20 / month per 5K comments). Be sure to explore all the other benefits of the Moderation Plus add-on in our pricing section.
Locking and Disabling Threads
Subscribers to our Moderation Plus add-on are now able to lock or disable threads on a particular comment box. These new options will be visible to moderators on the header of the comment box.
Locking means that any existing comments on the page will remain visible, but no new comments can be made.
Disabling means that no new comments can be made, and any existing comments will no longer be visible.
More to come
In the next few weeks, we will be switching gears to bring you some new features exclusive to CommentBox.io. We're very excited to release them and we can't wait to show you what we've been working on!
Until then, as always if there's any feedback on the above, or any new features you'd like to see, let us know in the comments below :)
- Shaun