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Comments 3

Livefyre Comments 3 replaces your default comments with real-time conversations. Our social integration features make it easy to capture all the conversations going on about your posts across Twitter and Facebook, and pull your friends into the conversation.

Admin Dashboard

Livefyre’s centralized dashboard allows you to track and monitor every interaction on your site from one location, in real-time. Filter by comment, network or user, and moderate with ease. We make it seamless to maintain high quality conversation on your content.

Explore Comments 3 Features

The best becomes even better with Livefyre Comments 3. The platform was designed from the ground-up for the social web, turning your blog into the hub of engagement.

SocialSync

You love the comments and conversation going on about your blog posts, but they’re not all happening on your site. Your friends, family and loyal readers are also commenting on your post via Facebook and Twitter and you haven’t been able to capture that conversation. Until Now.

With Livefyre SocialSync, the conversation happening on Facebook and Twitter automatically syncs directly to your content, where it belongs. SocialSync comments can be replied to and interacted with just like any other comment, including being automatically posted back to Twitter or Facebook.

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Social Sign In

Livefyre makes it simple for readers to join your community. Users have the option to sign in with multiple social networks to put a face to their name and comments. That way they can jump right in and join the conversation. No new log-in required.

Sites can also use our guest commenting option to let their community comment without even creating an account.

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Friend Tagging

Getting your friends in on the conversation is as simple as typing the “@” sign. Easily invite Facebook and Twitter friends to join the conversation right from the comment box. Give your readers access to their entire social network to bring specific friends that would be interested in the conversation.

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Comment Sharing

You have a great community with some smart ideas. Okay..maybe not all of these comments are Mensa quality, but a lot of them are interesting, funny or just a bit insightful.

Let your community share those thoughts! With one click, users can easily share comments with their friends on other social networks including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Empower your community to spread the best reactions to your content and bring more traffic to your site.

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Comment Liking

There’s a reason teachers gave out gold stars in elementary school- who doesn’t love being told “job well done?” Let your community members recognize those users who elevate the conversation. Livefyre even shows the avatars of every user who’s liked a comment.

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Rich Text Editor

Sometimes you just need to be bold. Comments 3 includes new visualization tools like rich-text editing so that you can emphasize your point of view in flourishes of bold italics, or create a bulleted list to drive home your argument.

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LinkBack

Most of us look to our friends for their recommendations about a new restaurant, book, or a hair stylist who won’t give you the Dorothy Hammill wedge. It makes sense to discover new ideas, places and people through our community.

Blogging is no different. Actually, one of the best parts about blogging is discovering new content and connections. LinkBack encourages community interaction by letting other Livefyre bloggers display a link to their latest post when they leave a comment.

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Live Listeners

Most of us are more inclined to think about what we’re saying when speaking to a crowd. And no one likes to feel like they’re speaking to an empty room. Our Live Listener count lets readers know exactly how many people are on the current page or have followed the conversation, giving them more incentive to leave a thoughtful response. It encourages more participation and higher quality conversations.

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Comment Notifiers

Livefyre Comment Notifiers make it as simple as possible to follow conversations in real-time, even if you’re not looking at the comments! The widget shows you who is participating in the conversation and what they are saying as it happens, all without losing your place on the page - so you never have to miss out.

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Media Embedding

Livefyre Comments 3 enhances your media embedding options so that you can share photos from Flickr and Instagram, play videos from YouTube and Vimeo, flip-through slide decks on SlideShare, listen to songs from SoundCloud and Spotify, geek-out on animated gifs from Myspace, and even feature Wikipedia articles directly in the conversation stream.

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Comment Editing

Comment Editing allows users to edit their own comments within a specific time frame so that they can fix their spelling mistakes without changing the context of the following comment stream. Site admins can make edits to all comments as well. Livefyre realizes mistakes are inevitable. But your comments shouldn’t have to show them.

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User Profiles

Conversations and comments are about the people behind them and Livefyre User Profiles make it easy to form a community. Our user bios allow community members to share a bit about themselves and the topics they care about, while also showing the conversations where they have left comments. If users choose they can also receive email notifications when a new comment is left as an easy way to stay engaged.

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Admin Dashboard Features

We make it easy to monitor, moderate and filter your comments with ease. Elevate the conversation on and gain insights on what drives discussion for your community.

Spam Protection

Moderate live from the stream, and see a complete history of all actions. Oh, and don't forget, thanks to real-time machine-learning protection your comments are basically spam-free.

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Community Flagging

Develop trust with community members by letting them notify you when a comment is offensive or inappropriate. Multiple flagging options give you more insight into the quality of the conversation, and community members can leave you a note to provide further explanation.

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Edit Comments

Not everyone has the eye of a copy editor, but now your comments can appear as though they were checked by one. Site admins can edit comments to correct spelling and grammar, and make sure that shared links and embedded media display content to keep the conversation clear and relevant.

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Leave Comment Notes

Communicate with other moderators on your site to follow-up with a particular commenter, or visit their blog to leave a comment. No need to leave your admin panel to coordinate with your moderators, see all your communication around comments in one place.

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Multiple Moderators

Designate as many moderators as you'd like—editors, guest authors, community managers—and kick it up a notch by managing their access levels too. You control your site and how it's moderated.

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Ban & Whitelist Users

Streamline moderation by allowing a core group of readers to comment on your site without passing through the moderation process with Whitelists. You can also deal with trolls and flamers quickly and efficiently by designating them as banned users - removing them and their comments from your community.

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Profanity Lists

Every comment is processed through Livefyre’s real-time profanity filters, even the words you didn’t even know existed get nixed before they hit the page.

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User Activity

Keep track of the most active participants in your community and see what conversations they are taking part in on other Livefyre blogs. You can also reach out to community members that have been quiet in your community to re-engage them and through their user profiles find the URLs for their blog.

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Moderation and Conversation Reports

Get a view of your most active users and conversations at a glance. Organize your reports by date range and easily track which conversations need your attention.

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Livefyre allows our communities to interact in a slick, real-time environment as opposed to clunkier chat programs or static commenting options which have proven to be inferior solutions. Ben Koo, CEO, Bloguin.com