This is a common recurrent question that often appears in the Questions section, so here is a quick FAQ about it. This reflects my personal opinion and knowledge.
Multiply does not allow comments from non-Multiply members as probably you know by now. It's this way to prevent abuse (spamming, trolling, etc) and because Multiply is also a social network service, not only a blog tool. But you can also share your posts with non-Multiply members easily, from simpler to more complicated:
- Share your posts by email: Multiply will keep a list of contacts you've invited and you can send your posts to them by email after you publish a new item. Although they won't be able to reply on your page, they will have full access to your content (using the personal link on the email), even for private posts (think secure) and they will be able to reply to you by email. (By the way, you can do this with old posts using the share link on your already-published posts).
- Cross-posting: you can enable cross-posting with 3 services as of now: LiveJournal, Typepad and Blogger. It means that your posts to Multiply will also be (automatically) posted to these services (and vice-versa). These services may offer "anonymous comments", and then you may have the best of two worlds: private comments on Multiply and public comments on Blogger, for instance. For more info:
- Add a chatbox/shout-out box: there are 3rd party services you can use, like the meebo.com widget. The bad thing about this is that you will have to add it to every post, but the good thing is that it will work with any post, not only blog ones. Before you ask, you can only use Flash or simple HTML widgets.
JavaScript/iframe are forbidden due to security reasons, so it means that the popular cbox.ws
won't work.
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