We’ve added a shoutbox for people who want to leave tips to good projects or just talk. Look in the left column, under categories.

We’re using a Wordpress plugin from Michiel 'McMike' Auerbach called "Roept U Maar" (”You call it” in Dutch.) The shoutbox was very easy to install, and even with some customized hacking it took only about an hour to set up and customize. You can use HTML code, so links can be coded as <a href=…> etc. We have also added a “Recent comments” and “Recent posts” feature to the article view, using a plugin from coffe2code.

Obviously, the shoutbox will be removed if abused, but we think it is a good feature. It’s all in the spirit of collaborative texts…