"Congratulations daddy! Each day is better than the last. Happy and healthy, and I love the names." - Dave Stanley

"Thanks Louis. I think all of us can agree that we deeply appreciate all the support you have given." - Dave Stanley

"It's a good thing Scoble didn't know about this. You may have gone down and then it would have been all his fault." - Dave Stanley

"Shey, we want to let comments travel back to blogs and other services like FriendFeed. Although, I can't say when this will happen. It's not an issue of whether or not we support the portability of comments. We support data portability, especially letting comments get pulled back to the blog. That being said, it's unfair to assume that the solution is about finding a platform to support. If we said today that we supported Disqus, that only means it's beneficial for a finite number of people that use Disqus. Everyone that uses Intense Debate, Wordpress Sezwho, and any other competing platform that pops up in the future would be left out in the cold. The answer to data portability of discussions should not be about supporting and integrating with 3rd party solutions. It should be about creating an open standard where everyone that has a vested interest can take advantage. A standard that everyone can use. A standard that doesn't require web services to tackle APIs from multiple..." - Dave Stanley

"So sorry for your loss. Our thoughts are with you and your wife. While we never met Molly, reading this brought tears to our eyes." - Dave Stanley

"Just to clarify our intention, we're not going to dump the data entirely. We're going to archive it, and explore ways to let users have access to that data in the future. We haven't yet decided how far back to keep accessible data in the near term; whether it be 3 months, 6 months, etc. I'd actually be interested to hear how far back people realistically read their feeds. Our observations are that users aren't scrolling back too far, and maintaining this data for those few instances is hurting the experience for everyone else. So in the interest of understanding how Shyftr is being used right now, and maintaining an efficient system to accommodate that usage, we believe this move makes sense." - Dave Stanley

"Louis, thanks for pointing out the human side to all of this. It's easy to lose site of the fact that there are hard working individuals behind all of these products and services, and it's important we take a second to pause and realize this once in a while." - Dave Stanley

"Duncan, thanks for the thoughtful review. Nice to see it in video format too :). There are a lot of moving parts that come into play for us, comments being one of them. Balancing what Shyftr can be for everyone is difficult to say the least, and we are constantly listening to and revising how we do things to keep that balance. If what we set out to build works, it will create an opportunity for everyone. An opportunity for users to get that ideal experience, an opportunity for publishers to broaden their reach, and subsequently this becomes an opportunity for publishers to take advantage of that broader audience. Shyftr sits in the middle as we try and facilitate this experience. When it comes to comments, we are discussing how we will handle them moving forward. Since we are a small team it is not as easy as flipping a switch and making things change. But we understand the perspective of giving back, and are supportive of this philosophy. We just need a little bit of patience as we..." - Dave Stanley