trying out disqus for comments

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 Comments

  1. 1. 
    Posted August 14, 2008 at 12:40 am | Permalink

    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. 2. 
    Posted August 14, 2008 at 4:04 am | Permalink

    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. 3. 
    Posted August 14, 2008 at 4:13 am | Permalink

    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. 4. 
    Posted August 14, 2008 at 7:00 am | Permalink

    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. 5. 
    Posted August 14, 2008 at 8:50 am | Permalink

    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. 6. 
    Posted August 14, 2008 at 9:17 am | Permalink

    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. 7. 
    john
    Posted August 14, 2008 at 9:19 am | Permalink

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

  8. 8. 
    Posted August 14, 2008 at 5:56 pm | Permalink

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

  9. 9. 
    Posted August 14, 2008 at 6:00 pm | Permalink

    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.

  10. 10. 
    Posted August 14, 2008 at 6:19 pm | Permalink
  11. 11. 
    Posted August 14, 2008 at 6:23 pm | Permalink

    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. 12. 
    Posted August 15, 2008 at 7:57 am | Permalink

    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. 13. 
    Posted August 15, 2008 at 10:37 am | Permalink

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

    Daniel @ Disqus

  14. 14. 
    hungryscientist
    Posted August 15, 2008 at 12:42 pm | Permalink

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

  15. 15. 
    davidakachaos
    Posted August 30, 2008 at 2:27 am | Permalink

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

  16. 16. 
    asda
    Posted September 3, 2008 at 7:32 pm | Permalink

    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. 17. 
    nareshr
    Posted September 25, 2008 at 12:10 am | Permalink

    Testing on safari …seems doesnt work

  18. 18. 
    Posted October 20, 2008 at 9:49 pm | Permalink

    Doesent look too good in IE 5 though

  19. 19. 
    Posted November 1, 2008 at 12:07 pm | Permalink

    Hi john jubjubs site.

  20. 20. 
    Posted November 5, 2008 at 6:51 am | Permalink

    WORKS FINE :)

    good work.

  21. 21. 
    Posted November 10, 2008 at 4:16 am | Permalink

    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. 22. 
    Posted November 15, 2008 at 1:08 am | Permalink

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

  23. 23. 
    Posted November 23, 2008 at 4:43 am | Permalink

    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. 24. 
    Posted November 24, 2008 at 12:46 pm | Permalink

    works great here! in Firefox 3.0.4

  25. 25. 
    Posted December 3, 2008 at 4:52 am | Permalink

    please be patient men

  26. 26. 
    Posted December 3, 2008 at 8:00 am | Permalink

    Great post on disqus . Thanks .

  27. 27. 
    Posted December 7, 2008 at 4:14 am | Permalink

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