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FriendFeed Comments WordPress Plugin

Started by Glenn Slaven · 4 months ago

Download the latest development version here.  Unzip that into your plugins folder & activate it.  You’ll then need to go into the options (or settings if you’re running WP2.5) and click on FriendFeed.  Put your FriendFeed nickname in %2 ... Continue reading »

126 comments

  • Louis Gray

    4 months ago

    How much do I need to pay to get a plug-in for Blogger as well? :-)
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  • Glenn Slaven

    4 months ago

    That would be a bit more difficult, it would need to be done as a widget, but the actual content would have to be hosted somewhere else. A neat little javascript solution by the FF guys would be awesome here
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  • Jake Fudge

    2 months ago

    I agree! I'm using Tumblr for my blog so a nice bit of HTML'ing would be right up my alley :¬D

    I really like what Glenn has done for his plugin, really slick.
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  • colinwalker

    3 months ago

    Hi Glenn,

    I've got this installed on a WP2.5 blog (http://colinwalker.me.uk) but for some reason it doesn't look like the template tag is being triggered on every post. Some of them have the FF section but others don't, even when there are likes and comments.

    Any ideas would be appreciated.

    Thanks.
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  • Glenn Slaven

    3 months ago

    Hi Colin, there seems to be a problem with posts with single quote marks in the title. FF is representing them as a different character to what is on your blog, so the plugin isn't matching them. I've updated the development version of the plugin to try & fix this, you can get it here: http://svn.wp-plugins.org/friendfeed-comments/t... . Just replace friendfeed-comments.php file in the plugin folder with that, then go to the plugin's settings page & click the "Reset comments/likes" button to force it to reload the comments.
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  • colinwalker

    3 months ago

    Thanks Glenn but still no dice I'm afraid. Checking the debug info it definitely pulls the info from FF for those posts but will still not display the DIV so is it an issue when it checks what it should be displaying rather than the check on FF?
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  • Glenn Slaven

    3 months ago

    It's failing in matching the posts with their FF entries. I'll try a few
    tests here & get back to you, sorry for the hassle
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  • colinwalker

    3 months ago

    Thanks, I appreciate it. Do you want me to send the debug info?
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  • Glenn Slaven

    3 months ago

    that would be helpful, thanks - gdalziel at gmail dot com
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  • sfoskett

    4 months ago

    Glenn,

    Awesome work! Once I noticed the code to add to the loop, I got it working at http://blog.fosketts.net too. I'll report any bugs!

    Stephen
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  • Martindale

    4 months ago

    Great work! I'm putting this to use immediately. I'm looking forward to future versions!
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  • urbansheep

    4 months ago

    It seems that plugin works, but it gets confused about the posts if you have more than one similar service in your account.

    I.e. if you have two blogs, plug-in doesn't tell posts from one or the other, thus showing incorrect stats and comments from another post. I guess it's a bug. :)
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  • Glenn Slaven

    4 months ago

    Yes this is a known bug, I'm looking at options to solve this at the moment. Currently it should only be an issue if 2 posts have the same name
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  • urbansheep

    4 months ago

    Umm.. No, I am sure my posts didn't have same names, but still plugin displayed comments from newer post from a different blog.

    Glenn, how does post binding works? How does plugin know which post to request from FF? It isn't blog post permalink, is it?
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  • Glenn Slaven

    4 months ago

    Well, that's a bit odd. Can you post a link showing this happening, I might be able to get a better idea why.

    Also, I've just checked in an update to the plugin that checks that the service url from FriendFeed is the same as the blog url. I haven't released the update yet, but you can grab the file from here is you want: http://svn.wp-plugins.org/friendfeed-comments/t...

    I've added a 'reset' button on the plugin's admin page. This will let you clear out all the information it's stored & reload it all from FriendFeed. Hopefully this should fix this bug.
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  • urbansheep

    4 months ago

    Nope, new version and reset didn't help. And I suppose I know what's the problem... I previously didn't account for one more thing: my blog has RSS served via Feedburner, and Feedburner alters permalinks for statistic purposes. That's where things get hairy.

    Plugin does have a permalink but doesn't have any idea about what is the feedburner link for the post is.

    Take a look:

    - Here is the original post: http://urbansheep.ru/2008/03/arrogance-is-a-wea...
    - Plugin pulls "likes" from the following post: http://www.friendfeed.com/e/8537dda8-f948-02be-...
    - While it should request stuff from this one: http://friendfeed.com/e/e2ed2f5c-4be3-416c-f0fc...

    Unless there's a way for plugin to first ping feedburner for a link, and then pull data from friendfeed, it seems quite difficult to resolve.
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  • Glenn Slaven

    4 months ago

    Ok, I think I know what the problem is, the cyrillic is freaking out my
    script!

    I'm normalising the title of each post by removing non-alphanumeric
    characters, of course being the anglo-centric bigot that I am, I'm just
    removing non-latin alpha characters. I've checked in an update that doesn't
    do that, can you try again? Sorry for the hassle

    Glenn
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  • urbansheep

    4 months ago

    :)
    No problem, I am happy to test if it helps us to get a neat solution for collecting all the feedback into a single place.

    Replaced, but still no luck — it seems that call to wp_ffcomments() doesn't do anything at all now, no output. What am I doing wrong? :)
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  • Glenn Slaven

    4 months ago

    Did you do the reset this time?
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  • urbansheep

    4 months ago

    Yep, twice.
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  • Glenn Slaven

    4 months ago

    OK, one more go, I've checked in a heap of tidy up changes & fixes along with some serious debug information.

    If this doesn't work, please tick the 'show debug info' checkbox in the options page & click the reset button & send what it shows you to me. Hopefully that will give me enough details to see what's going on

    cheers
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  • urbansheep

    4 months ago

    I sent debug data your way via contact form.

    Just in case the letter doesn't get through, here goes part with my 0.02 about what might be going wrong:

    I found out that when feed is requested, it contains no reference of posts from the blog in question — they have been pushed down by newer posts. After looking at the API, I dare to suppose that polling last 60 items might be not enough to keep up with some feeds (especially for users with twitter hyperactivity disorder). Other possible choices are using search (checking for title and then filtering results by link/domain name) or asking friendfeed to implement domain filter (so that we can request not just all "blog" service stuff, but rather "blog.slaven.net.au" stuff only).
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  • tonyhung

    4 months ago

    1. Does it work with WP2.5?
    2. Do we have any examples yet?
    3. Will it work with Disqus?
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  • Glenn Slaven

    4 months ago

    1. Yes, this site is running 2.5
    2. Yep, see this post for a post with a large number of comments: http://blog.slaven.net.au/archives/2008/03/27/f...
    3. Not really. It won't interfere with it, as you can see on this site, but it doesn't integrate. I was thinking about doing that, with the disqus API, but I thought it would get really confusing because there would be 2 locations the comments would come from, and there would be con context for a comment
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  • Nathan

    4 months ago

    I don't know why it's not working for me, though.

    Here's a post where a FriendFeed comment should show:
    http://nathanr.ca/news/torontos-cn-tower-wows-v...

    >:(
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  • pinksy

    4 months ago

    I've added it to my plugins, activated it, changed my FF nickname to Pinksy, kept the other thingy as "blog", and added <?php wp_ffcomments(); ?> inside the loop on my single.php template file, added a test comment (http://friendfeed.com/e/15c7da39-d9ed-33b5-2787...), but nothing comes up (http://www.pinksy.co.uk/index.php/2008/04/18/5h...). Am I doing something wrong?

    Brilliant work though...

    Cheers
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  • Glenn Slaven

    4 months ago

    If you put the comment on the post after you setup the plugin you'll need to wait an hour. It polls FriendFeed every hour for new comments/likes. If you want it to update now, go back into the admin page & click save. That forces an update.
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  • pinksy

    4 months ago

    Thanks dalziel. I got it to work in the end, but I'm not sure how. Could the FF nickname be case sensitive? I originally had it as "Pinksy", but then changed it to "pinksy", and now it works.

    Does it link on the URL of the post? I was just wondering what should happen if you wanted to test it locally. I'm running my site locally via xampp, but the plugin doesn't seem to find the post on FF when I do it that way, as if it links on the real URL.
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  • J. Phil

    3 months ago

    I like this plugin so much I added it to the big loop in WP.. I <3 FriendFeed stats!
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  • iankennedy

    3 months ago

    Hi Glenn,

    This is really great but I fear that I am one of the many that feed my RSS to feedburner before it gets to feedburner. If I'm reading your post correctly, this plug-in doesn't work correctly if you use feedburner?

    Ian
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  • Glenn Slaven

    3 months ago

    Nope, it works fine, I use feedburner here, it will just have an issue if your posts on your blog have the same title. It uses the title to uniquely identify a post, so it needs unique titles for each post
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  • claudia

    3 months ago

    I see this plugin in sevreal super cool blogs. I want to have it in my sidebar. I followed all the instructions, have the last update from wp and the plugin, but it is not displaying anything. It connects, loads posts, but there is nothing displayed. On the debbugging mode it says

    30 entries loaded from FriendFeed
    0 entries loaded, 1 total entries stored.
    And it does have all the entries.

    Do you know what might be the problem?
    txs!
    Claudia
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  • Glenn Slaven

    3 months ago

    Claudia, the plugin did need to sit inside 'the loop' ( http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop ), but I've just checked in an update that will allow you to put it in the sidebar (it will only work on single post pages)
    http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/friendfee...

    cheers
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  • Jacob Burke

    2 months ago

    Great plugin, but it is causing display issues on my site. Thinking it is conflicting with Lightbox, let me know when you have an update available. Thanks!
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  • Glenn Slaven

    2 months ago

    Could you give me a bit more information about what's happening please?
    Perhaps a link to where it's happening?

    cheers

    2008/5/26 Disqus <>:
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  • Jacob Burke

    2 months ago

    I have re-enabled the plugin on my blog, so if you head over to: http://blog.jacobburke.com and take a look, then you will see what is happening. I am getting a large black box at the top of the page and at the bottom I am seeing the lightbox overlay in a loading state.

    Thanks!
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  • Glenn Slaven

    2 months ago

    Jacob, which lightbox plugin are you using there?
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  • Jacob Burke

    2 months ago

    I am using Lightbox 2.04, here is the link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lightbox-2-...
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  • Glenn Slaven

    2 months ago

    I seem to have found the problem. I included that plugin on my site & the
    same problem occured. Basically the lightbox plugin is explicitly including
    a version of prototype, rather than using the buillt-in wordpress function
    for including it. So it's being included twice, which is causing the error

    I edited the lightbox.php file for the plugin to use the bult-in method & it
    seems to work. If you go here:
    http://blog.slaven.net.au/archives/2008/04/30/t... and
    click on the image in the post the lightbox should come up.

    I can send you the updated code for the lightbox plugin if you like

    2008/5/26 Disqus <>:
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  • Jacob Burke

    2 months ago

    There does not seem to be an image in that post for me to test lightbox. I am very interested in the updated code. Thanks!
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  • Jacob Burke

    2 months ago

    I used your plugin hack for Lightbox and everything is working smoothly now. Thanks again for your help on getting the plugin setup. Cheers!
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  • Jacob Burke

    2 months ago

    I have stumbled upon one more issue, the comments are only showing on certain posts, yet I have the code in place on the template. Any reason as to why this is happening?
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  • Glenn Slaven

    2 months ago

    http://blog.jacobburke.com/2008/05/whats-separa...
    http://blog.jacobburke.com/2008/05/metoday-may-...
    The posts had their titles changed after FriendFeed picked it up, hence the loss. This is an unfortunate side-effect of using the titles as an identifier, but unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any other option at this point
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  • Jacob Burke

    2 months ago

    Thanks Glenn, I appreciate the information and the quick response. Cheers.
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  • Jacob Burke

    2 months ago

    I have disabled the plugin again, since I was getting messages about the display issues on my blog. I have uploaded a screenshot of what the display is with the plugin enabled: http://flickr.com/photos/jacob_burke/2523084663/

    Thanks!
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  • Jeremiah Hoyet

    2 months ago

    Thanks! This plugin will come in handy!
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  • Shey

    2 months ago

    Hey Glenn, I'm getting this error on my posts:

    Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home2/shey/public_html/wp-content/plugins/friendfeed-comments/friendfeed-comments.php on line 356

    You can see it on my site http://www.sheysmith.com/

    Is the fix for the single quote in titles included in 1.5.3? I noticed some of my posts don't have the FriendFeed comments section coming up.
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  • Glenn Slaven

    2 months ago

    Yeah it should be, what version of the plugin are you running currently?
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  • Shey

    2 months ago

    1.5.3
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  • Glenn Slaven

    2 months ago

    Shey, I've checked in an update to version 1.5.5 that will hopefully fix your problem http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/friendfee...
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  • Shey

    2 months ago

    Thanks Glenn!

    The error is gone but I still don't see any info post. Here's the debug error I got from the admin options:

    90 entries loaded from FriendFeed

    FriendFeed Is The Signal - FriendFeed+Is+The+Signal


    Fatal error: Cannot use string offset as an array in /home2/shey/public_html/wp-content/plugins/friendfeed-comments/friendfeed-comments.php on line 193
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  • Shey

    2 months ago

    Problem fixed! Thanks Glenn!
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  • Ben

    2 months ago

    Anyone have any luck making this work with the Mimbo theme?
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  • Mark Krynsky

    2 months ago

    First off, thanks for a great plugin. I seem to be having an issue with it not properly displaying likes. Here are 2 examples that I verified loaded when in debug:

    Example 1

    Blog Page:
    http://lifestreamblog.com/unique-custom-lifestr...
    FriendFeed Page:
    http://friendfeed.com/e/7ddf2d4f-5d94-053a-4913...

    Example 2

    Blog Page:
    http://lifestreamblog.com/how-to-find-local-twi...
    FriendFeed Page:
    http://friendfeed.com/e/23290cb3-fcff-58f2-1c11...

    Also, I have several services added as a blog on FF & I left the setting for "FriendFeed Servicename" as "blog".
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  • Glenn Slaven

    2 months ago

    Mark I've just updated the plugin to allow you to manually link up the FriendFeed items with your posts if the plugin is failing to do it automatically. See http://blog.slaven.net.au/archives/2008/06/02/o... for details, the update is available now from the WordPress plugin site.

    cheers
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  • Mark Krynsky

    2 months ago

    Thanks Glenn, I upgraded and the manual linkage works.
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  • Matthew Gifford

    2 months ago

    Thanks for the plugin, Glenn.

    I did encounter one problem, in render_comment() in friendfeed-comments.php, though. The date() function doesn't like the formatting of $comment->date and is causing all comments to display December 31, 1969. Adding the following line before $time is set fixes the problem.

    $comment->date = strtotime(str_replace('T', ' ', $comment->date));
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  • Glenn Slaven

    2 months ago

    That's odd because the FriendFeed API is supposed to be returning a
    timestamp (see ~ line 238 in the friendfeed.php file) have you got a
    different version of that file included somewhere else on your site?

    2008/6/2 Disqus <>:
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  • Matthew Gifford

    2 months ago

    I see in the code where that's supposed to be happening. All I know is that when it's time to render the comment, $comment->date is in ISO 8601.
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  • Glenn Slaven

    2 months ago

    That's really wierd, I've never seen that before. Can you send me the debug
    info when you click save on the settings page? gdalziel at gmail.com I'll
    see if it's something dodgy in my code

    2008/6/2 Disqus <>:
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  • Matthew Gifford

    2 months ago

    Sent.
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  • KnightKnetwork

    1 month ago

    I'm seeing this too Glen, is it a firendfeed problem?
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  • JohnB

    2 months ago

    I can't get it working on WP 2.5.1 ,.. no matter what I try :( does look promising though.
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  • Glenn Slaven

    2 months ago

    John could you give me a link back to your site & a few more details about what's going wrong?
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  • Paul OFlaherty

    2 months ago

    Also having the same issue on 2.5.1, nothing appears to be happening when it is installed, activated, username put in, and tag placed in single.php.

    Will leave it activated on my blog. http://blog.oflaherty.dk

    Actuall, this post I know has FF comments : http://blog.oflaherty.dk/2008/06/10/is-blogging...

    Thanks, am looking forward to getting this working :)
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  • MT Hacks

    1 month ago

    Import FriendFeed Comments...

    FriendFeed Comments is a plugin for Movable Type that enables you to import and display comments made using FriendFeed on your entries. You can also use the plugin to enable your blog commenter to "Cc." their comments to FriendFeed (if......
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  • davidsim

    1 month ago

    Had to make a couple of hacks, as prototype seems to conflict with Mootools, used by my blog template. Not your problem!

    Great work - blog now displaying comments from FriendFeed, which keeps everything together on the blog.

    For example : http://4tm-services.com/2008/06/26/oh-wow-analy...

    Thanks.
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  • Glenn Slaven

    1 month ago

    Great to hear David, thanks.

    I've also found it conflicts with JQuery. I'd really appreciate it if you could send me the changes you had to make for it to work with Mootools, I' m looking to let the user pick between the 3 in a future version, hopefully remove these problems!

    cheers
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  • sbspalding

    1 month ago

    Hey Glenn, I'm having a bit of an issue with the plugin. I installed it, updated it and put the template tag into the loop on the single.php and nothing at all has shown up on any of my posts. I waited an hour just in case it had something to do with caching, but still nothing. I tried debug, and it looks like it's importing properly but I am not sure why the widget doesn't appear at all.

    The site is http://www.howtosplitanatom.com, any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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  • Glenn Slaven

    1 month ago

    Hey steve, the problem is that on friendfeed the blog has a www. in front of the url, where as on your site it doesn't, so the plugin doesn't know it's the same site. If you drop the www from the url on friendfeed it should fix it.
    cheers
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  • sbspalding

    1 month ago

    Thanks Glenn!
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  • sbspalding

    1 month ago

    Just made the changes, still no good unfortunately. :(
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  • Glenn Slaven

    1 month ago

    Sorry