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Rejoice! Comments are Back on the Phoblographer

Chris Gampat
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10/02/2014
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Last Updated on 10/02/2014 by Chris Gampat

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Hi everyone,

Today we’d like to formally announce that we’ve brought commenting back to the Phoblographer. For those of you that have been with us for a long time, we got rid of commenting a while ago because we simply wanted to move the conversations to our social pages. But more importantly, one of our competitors (and the only site that I truly consider as such) was hacked and usernames/passwords were stolen. To safeguard the community, we decided that it would be easier for us to remove them–especially with all the crazy virus scares that we had heard about during the time.

We’ve chosen a different route to commenting though. While many websites use Discus to allow folks to log in using pretty much any platform they want, we’re opting instead for Google + comments. Why? Well, we really appreciate the Google + community for starters, and we’re trying to find a way to embrace them more. So by logging in with your Gmail address or your Google + account, you can easily comment on the site. No, we’re not mining data from you and to be quite honest we have bigger fish to fry than to worry about what your password is–we’re just trying to create a better community of inspiration, learning, constructive criticism, and discussion and real events affecting the community as it shifts while maintaining complete security of the site.

Along with this, you may have noticed a slight redesign change. This is phase one what’s about to come and we think you should be as excited as we are about it. It’s been in the works for months and is fairly minor, but it will make both your mobile experience and general homepage experience much cooler.

Beyond that, as you can tell we’ve shifted in content production. We’re always going to deliver reviews to you. But we’re being more selective about our news and including more tutorials, features, and interviews in hopes that you’ll gain extra inspiration when you visit the site. Plus, we’re constantly searching for the latest and greatest deals.

And if we haven’t said it enough, we want to thank you for your continued support. We really appreciate you voting for us in our bid to win a giant $150,000 grant that will go towards contests and building the site–and despite the fact that we’ve hit the minimum number of votes we’d like to ask you to continue voting for us to see just how far we can take it. Just click here and type in The Phoblographer. Then vote.

Thank you. And we look forward to chatting with you every day.

Sincerely,

Chris Gampat

Editor in Chief

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.