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Re: My verdict on Disqus: Two thumbs up

djp72 — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:10:13 -0000

disqus is the best.

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Michael Midnight — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:14:47 -0000

Nice right up

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anon — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:27:21 -0000

is an email address necessary for every comment?
I don't like asking my users for email addresses, it's orwellian.

Re: My verdict on Disqus: Two thumbs up

mathewi — Wed, 28 May 2008 14:31:04 -0000

Brendan, I'm not sure I agree with you that Disqus has a "baseline
usability problem"; I prefer threaded conversations, for one thing
(although many disagree). As for the need to register, while it does
turn some people off it also makes it more likely that the person
commenting really wants to contribute -- and thereby keeps the number
of malicious comments to a minimum. There are benefits and drawbacks
to both approaches, obviously.

Re: My verdict on Disqus: Two thumbs up

mathewi — Wed, 28 May 2008 14:28:05 -0000

Thanks, Jack -- those are all good points, although I'm not convinced
how much SEO value there is to Google being able to search comments
(and I believe you can implement Disqus without using Javascript). But
I agree that direct access to email info and the ability to have
trackbacks are both useful things, and I hope Disqus adds them soon.

Re: My verdict on Disqus: Two thumbs up

Brendan Falkowski — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:40:34 -0000

A rebel-news site for my university implemented Disqus, and I wrote an article for them opposing it. Disqus has a baseline usability problem, which I outline here: http://www.istbuilding.com/2008/05/18/a-blog-is...

Re: My verdict on Disqus: Two thumbs up

Jack — Wed, 28 May 2008 12:59:47 -0000

Matthew,

You might want to take a look at this: http://ryanspoon.com/blog/2008/05/15/disqus-aft...

Re: My verdict on Disqus: Two thumbs up

brlewis — Wed, 28 May 2008 12:58:20 -0000

Go for it. You'll be famous!

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none — Wed, 28 May 2008 12:33:19 -0000

honestly how many hours (yes hours) would this take to build. wtf? why doesnt someone open source one for wordpress?

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jeffisageek — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:32:50 -0000

I guess to me if I would lose my comments on my blog it wouldnt be like I get fired at work or have to get a divorce...they are just comments and not the end of the world...but that is just on my blog so I went with disqus.

I really like the service and the community around it.

Re: My verdict on Disqus: Two thumbs up

danielha — Tue, 13 May 2008 03:00:07 -0000

They do. Let us know if you're having probs!

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mathewi — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:54:02 -0000

As far as I know, Cynthia, commenters get notified by Disqus when
there's a reply -- or should.

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CynthiaBlue — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:50:08 -0000

Okay but if I reply to one of my commenters comments, will they get an email of my reply? I commented logged out in another browser and then replied, and didn't get notification of the reply.

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sawantsachin1985 — Mon, 12 May 2008 04:26:19 -0000

hey, disqus is good.........i guess it will become really big..... Ha is doing heck of a job........

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mndoci — Mon, 12 May 2008 01:31:30 -0000

I have the same concerns as Risely, but in the end the benefits and ability to add karma, etc won out. Tighter integration into WP, and most importantly trackbacks would be most useful, but I figured those would happen over time. Reasons I don't use intense debate (which looks prettier). It's less stable, and the community around Disqus seems more mature

Re: My verdict on Disqus: Two thumbs up

svartling — Sun, 11 May 2008 16:52:11 -0000

Same here. I've started to install it on all my blogs :)

Re: My verdict on Disqus: Two thumbs up

felix — Sun, 11 May 2008 15:04:49 -0000

I think the difference is that if you own your comments (as well as your software stack) you are in control of your backups. That you may not back up your comments is completely within your control, Disqus is completely outside of your control. If they decide to shut down tomorrow, there's not much that could be done to salvage your comments unless they provide a way.

Having said that, I just rolled it out on my blogs, so I guess we'll see! :)

Re: My verdict on Disqus: Two thumbs up

mathewi — Sun, 11 May 2008 13:58:02 -0000

That's a good point, Dave. In fact, Corvida from SheGeeks wrote about
how Disqus saved her when her blog host went down -- so that was a
situation where having comments hosted elsewhere was actually a
benefit.

Re: My verdict on Disqus: Two thumbs up

mathewi — Sun, 11 May 2008 13:57:03 -0000

Thanks for the comment, Fred. I'm glad you did write about it -- like
you, I think a healthy comment section is the mark of a good blog, so
it's worth thinking about how to make it better. And for me, Disqus
definitely does that.

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jmcnally — Sun, 11 May 2008 13:37:04 -0000

I'm liking it but just waiting for all my commenters to sign up, too. You're one of the only blogs I comment on that uses it so far...

Re: My verdict on Disqus: Two thumbs up

fredwilson — Sun, 11 May 2008 12:55:45 -0000

matthew

you wonder why i chose now to write this post. it's a good question.

i'd noticed a lot of chatter in twitter lately about why to use disqus, most notably robert scoble and others who were talking to him about it.

i was going to twitter the three reasons right then and there

but then i thought better of it. i really needed a bit more than 140 characters to do justice to the reasons.

so that's it. it seems to have spawned a great discussion and debate. which is wonderful. and a bunch of feature requests for disqus and its competitors too.

fred

Re: My verdict on Disqus: Two thumbs up

dave — Sun, 11 May 2008 11:53:31 -0000

I use Disqus too, and I like it. A lot.

I'd suggest looking in the Spam section of the Dashboard every once in a while. The first time I did I found a slew of false-positives, posts it had categorized as spam which weren't spam.

I don't miss trackbacks, and I guess I'd like to keep a copy of the comment data, though if they ever went down I can't imagine when I'd find the time to import them into something else. And why would that be more likely to survive? I don't see why we should blame Disqus for a lingering problem none of us have really addressed, the future-safeness of our work.

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buckpost — Sun, 11 May 2008 11:42:19 -0000

I'm a big Disqus fan as well. Aside from the feature-set, Daniel's willingness to listen to users and quickly respond gives me confidence Disqus is heading in the right direction. For anyone interested, here's an interview I did recently with Daniel:
http://snurl.com/28bse

Re: My verdict on Disqus: Two thumbs up

Scabr — Sun, 11 May 2008 09:44:42 -0000

Comment is a complete informational object.Like post , photo,video,etc.Disqus picks out it well.It's main strategic advantage.Technically needed to improve.

Re: My verdict on Disqus: Two thumbs up

Des — Sun, 11 May 2008 09:06:13 -0000

What about intensedebate?
-Des
http://techwatch.reviewk.com/