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13 Aug, 2008

trying out disqus for comments

Posted by: John In: The Internets

trying out disqus for comments, both because i’d sorta like to see threaded comments on my blog, and because i really like & am thinking a bunch about a people-centered web (in this case, comments across the blogosphere indexed by person).

let me know what you think, if it doesn’t work, etc etc…

[was super, super easy to implement in wordpress, fwiw]

27 Responses to "trying out disqus for comments"

1 | beltzner

August 14th, 2008 at 12:40 am

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I’ll tell you what I think if you promise to tell me how it affects comment conversations. :)

Right now, the embed of the DISQUS part looks a little awkward as it’s using a white background with a different font. Got any styling control?

2 | dria

August 14th, 2008 at 4:04 am

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I’m totally copying you and installed it over at my blog, too. Super easy install and setup…they’ve done a great job there.

3 | dria

August 14th, 2008 at 4:13 am

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My community page is odd (or broken? not sure). The post ordering appears totally random, ie: the “Newest” thread is a story from 2004, and a post from yesterday is a few down the list. I’m sure they’ll work it out. The system looks pretty keen so far, possible bugs aside.

4 | johnlilly

August 14th, 2008 at 7:00 am

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I think I do have styling control, but need to take some time and look into it a bit — really first off just wanted to see if it would work or not. I know I should care more about styling, but just for the moment, I was caring more about the threading capability. Will play with it over the weekend some.

5 | beltzner

August 14th, 2008 at 8:50 am

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Yeah, I just wanted to make sure you knew and that it wasn’t some strange thing with the publishing. I imagine you’ll have complete control.

I do like how I get email notifications. And how I can reply to emails to have my comments appear threaded in place on the blog. Like this.

6 | johnlilly

August 14th, 2008 at 9:17 am

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wow, that’s interesting — i hadn’t noticed that. e-mail responses to
comments that will then get threaded is pretty neat. i’m really liking
disqus, even with some rough edges.

7 | john

August 14th, 2008 at 9:19 am

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ewwwwww. looking crappy on safari. hmm. (this is from john, but not logged in as me.)

8 | dria

August 14th, 2008 at 5:56 pm

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New theme looks sparky. I’m a bit of a traditionalist in that i far prefer black text on white/light background.

9 | johnlilly

August 14th, 2008 at 6:00 pm

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thanks! trying to make it look closer to joi.ito.com, but thinking i’m going to do it very slowly unless i enlist some help or publicly shame myself by moving to halfway done state.

11 | dria

August 14th, 2008 at 6:23 pm

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Hm, blank reply from me here was an attempt to use the email-response thing. It may still have some issues. What I said was:

“Joi’s blog is certainly worthy of emulation. Are you going to have all the twitters and flickrs and deliciouses and such in there as well? I’ve been pondering the idea of doing something like that (sort of a “planet dria” self-hosted and carefully controllable lifestreamy sort of thing) but I’d like it all to be subscribable via a single RSS feed. Haven’t figured out how to do that yet without resorting to a third-party service, and that’s not what I want. I could use the planet software, but it’s sort of blah.”

12 | johnlilly

August 15th, 2008 at 7:57 am

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that’s my plan — i’m sort of obsessed with all the persona-related
connections joi’s got on his blog, so want to sorta collect it all
here. will start doing that sometime; it’s why i started moving to a
different theme. fwiw, getting a friendfeed page will give you what
you want in terms of your lifestream, i’m pretty sure.

13 | Daniel Ha

August 15th, 2008 at 10:37 am

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Hey guys, disqus.com/docs/css may be helpful.

Daniel @ Disqus

14 | hungryscientist

August 15th, 2008 at 12:42 pm

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Great idea John, I am a big fan of Disqus.

15 | davidakachaos

August 30th, 2008 at 2:27 am

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I've this system on my (Dutch) blog as well. It works super for me :-)

16 | asda

September 3rd, 2008 at 7:32 pm

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セフレの募集で
画像を見てセフレとアド交換して
セフレと出会いました。
中でも人妻出会いの体験は最高でした。
さらにスタビみたいなメル友掲示板で
募集したらエロいメル友が出来た。
全国にメル友作って
完全無料サイトで出会い東京を探してます。
割り切りもです。
セフレと出逢って
セフレとのセックスで
セフレと出会い系サイトで逢うなら
セフレと逢える
セフレ完全無料サイト
掲示板はメル友との料金無料と
確認してメル友探そう。
出会いはメル友から
結婚までメル友が至れば
メル友欲しくて人妻で35歳からの出会いとから探して
好みの人妻とばっりり出会えて
そりゃもう大変美人な人妻と出会ったけど
掲示板とかで見る人妻の画像や
無料の画像投稿サイトの人妻動画とか見ると
やっぱ人妻って淫乱なのかなって思う。

17 | nareshr

September 25th, 2008 at 12:10 am

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Testing on safari …seems doesnt work

18 | Alex

October 20th, 2008 at 9:49 pm

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Doesent look too good in IE 5 though

19 | cafetu

November 1st, 2008 at 12:07 pm

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Hi john jubjubs site.

21 | color_chart

November 10th, 2008 at 4:16 am

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I just wish more people would use disqus and take advantage of its usability…. There was talk a while ago about wordpress replacing its old commenting system with the disqus system in a future release but for some reason that didnt quite work out… Ive used disqus since it first came out because i love the way i can comment on various blogs without having to keep logging in or entering those really annoying catcha thingys… god i hate those… anyway you have made the right decision moving over to disqus… on with the disqus revolution..

22 | Eve @ Patch Management Apps

November 15th, 2008 at 1:08 am

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I love disqus. It is so easy to use it and clean interface it has. It is simply great

23 | Ionut

November 23rd, 2008 at 4:43 am

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Many friend talk about DISQUS, so I started using it for my blog also . IT nice and interative, not to mention many functions like Name Saving [ you can see what comments someoneposted just by pointing the cursor on it ] . Most of all, its slim, far better than the usual comment bar from cms like wordpress and others . Overall, i gotta hand it to the people who cam up with it, great job ! Cheers

24 | proxydude

November 24th, 2008 at 12:46 pm

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works great here! in Firefox 3.0.4

25 | seotest

December 3rd, 2008 at 4:52 am

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please be patient men

26 | davis

December 3rd, 2008 at 8:00 am

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Great post on disqus . Thanks .

27 | mp4 to dvd

December 7th, 2008 at 4:14 am

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I am learning to create a blog by myself now and your post is very helpful.


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