Hi Jeff,

Thanks for taking the time to review our Thoughtful Comments. That's a great tip about changing "Delete" to "Trash". Our settings options originally allowed the user to choose to send comments to trash or directly delete (now it's Trash only: the less preferences the better): we should reflect that distinction in the front end language though.

A feature which many administrators might appreciate is the automated URL shortening. The way this works is that if someone include a really long naked URL in a comment that link becomes "link to domain.com". This is especially useful on sites where people like to talk but are not especially technical (think politics, celebrity, cooking, sports).

Hi Jeffrey,

Thanks for the reminder about the Wordpress compatibility check. We are fully compatible with Wordpress 4.1 and are updating the message now. With the number of updates which Wordpress.org pushes (we'd prefer twice a year with database level updates only annually), most plugins are nominally out of date as Justin kindly pointed out (love your Hybrid framework btw, your new forum plugin looks exciting, for the moment we're still using customised bbPress v1 for our support forums like Wordpress.org).

Hi Everyone,

Comment caching is coming to Thoughtful Comments very soon, which will allow fast loading with low processor overhead of pages with extreme numbers of comments. We've been using front end caching to get the job done up until now which works fine for page load times. Bulk caching of older comments (we already handle Gravatar caching with our FV Gravatar Cache) will help reduce server load for very busy posts (think front page NY Times or Huffington Post). We have bulk comment caching working on some client sites and just need to drop the code into the core Thoughtful Comments.

On the topic of caching, we're also finishing a free mobile and retina image caching solution: FV Mobile Retina for Wordpress. Without adding extra (slow) javascript, you'll be able to serve a cached version of desktop with and without retina, as well cached versions of mobile both with and without retina images. The image processing will all be automated. If you'd like to be on the beta test list, drop me a line.