Edit: Please read this blog post, but also please jump in on this thread - the idea is already proposed but needs community support:
http://drupal.org/node/484034

And so again today it happened, as it does so many days. Someone needs to be able to do something. They Google. They search Drupal.org. They find nothing but a few open issues or an unsuitable/unsupported contrib module. They're a developer, so after an hour of searching they think "ach, to hell with this - I'll just write something".

So comments are back up and running. I still need to migrate all the old Node Comments to core Drupal comments, but at least it is now a properly moderated mechanism so it should get rid of the spam. The rest can happen when it happens.

Also some other major changes. You may have noticed the right-hand menu has changed, as has some of the peripheral text. Well that's just fluff, but I've added user profile support, opened Twitter integration up to regular users and done a few other bits and pieces in readiness for letting other authors loose on the system.