By Brent Williams on Saturday, 07 March 2015
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I run both EasyBlog and Komento, although I am experimenting with using Facebook comments. I believe that can only be done through the EasyBlog component, so I'm using that. (Please tell me if I'm wrong).

My question is this: With Facebook comments, are any notifications given to the author about new comments? If not, do you know if that is even technically feasible?
Hello Brent,

I don't think this is technically possible because these are handled by Facebook. But you can try accessing https://developers.facebook.com/tools/comments and see if there's a way to actually configure notifications for this?

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Thank you for understanding.
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Saturday, 07 March 2015 14:09
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Subscription taken care of.

As for this feature, there is a discussion about it on Stack Overflow here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14923890/joomla-k2-item-facebook-comment-notify-author-email

The first answer refers to a solution, although I don't know if it works.

Another potential solution could be to pull the total number of Facebook comments, which I believe is possible. Store that number in the database, and if the number goes up, then use a CRON job to send out a notification. That's kind of cumbersome, but it would work.

In the end, Facebook comments could be really powerful, but without notifications, then there would be no "back and forth" between the author and commenters.
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Saturday, 14 March 2015 05:02
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Hello Brent,

I think that the only way around this is to utilize Facebook's event triggers, https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/javascript/FB.Event.subscribe/v2.2 . I haven't really played around with this before to be honest but I will see if there's a way to add this into EasyBlog 5 (No promises though, but I will try)

If you need this very urgently, you can always contact us at our helpdesk (https://crm.stackideas.com) to request for a quote and we'll be able to build a custom notifications for you.
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Saturday, 14 March 2015 17:24
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Thanks, Mark. I'm testing it right now just to see if it affects the overall number of comments. So I'm not sure if I'll even keep the change or not. I think it is a great idea to include in a new version, and I'll see if I need it beforehand through custom coding.
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Monday, 16 March 2015 22:21
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Thanks for the heads up on this Brent
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Tuesday, 17 March 2015 00:17
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