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Stephanie 1 month ago with 3 points
If you aint first you're last. Just joined Disqus seems to be good. Thanks for the info Scott.
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Trying to leave an "anonymous" comment....
How about if, for whatever reason, you want to go back? Will you be able to move all the comments back to your blog from Disqus? -
Great to see you try out Disqus!
The plugin you are using uses our API so its not a javascript include. :)
I think you'll enjoy the community on Disqus. Let me know if you ever need anything: daniel@disqus.com -
Thanks Daniel. It seems like you guys are really onto something here. A lot of what I was trying to do with Bumpzee a year ago with the comment tracking. good stuff.
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Disqus FTW!
Sorry, had to do that.
But seriously, I love this service and recommend it for all bloggers. Tumblr integration is killer. -
Ok now I'm logged in. :)
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There you are. What happened the first time? We can't have un-smooth commenting here!
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Technical difficulties on my end. Promise it won't be un-smooth again!
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I signed up for Disqus to be recognized when I post on blogs (just easier that way) but otherwise I haven't delved into it too much. Thanks for the break down.
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I'm really liking it so far Trish. You may want to consider it for your shiny new Wordpress blog.
As you can see here, people are having a fine time with it. -
I'll check it out more as I comment around and look into it.
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Hey Vlad.
Glad to see the anonymous comment worked. Well, it's not so much anonymous as you just don't have to log in. I hope it was easy to do that.
To answer your question, Disqus' position is that I retain ownership of my comments. Practically speaking I can export all the comments to XML format. In the present form, it would take some work to get them into Wordpress. If Disqus doesn't build a more seamless way to export comments into the blog, I'm sure someone will build something at some point.
Anyway, I'm not terribly worried about it. I can get the data out. That's the critical thing. -
I am actually considering turning off comments on some of my blogs altogether. I have been running in way too many creeps lately.
What about video. Which service do you prefer? Viddler seems to be good. -
Besides Youtube, I've tried Viddler and Blip.TV. I'm sorta planning to write more detail about this, but the short of it is they both work well.
Blip.TV is very slow rendering the videos as shockwave files (needed for embedding). Takes a good few hours. I paid $8 for the pro service that gives priority and it was much faster.
The Viddler free service is super fast in rendering the videos, so I've been using that on the most recent videos. I'll probably stick with that for a while. -
And, I know you've probably been feeling really kicked in the stomach lately Vlad, but don't let them win.
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No I am not giving in..... The Yahoo is publicly traded company. They have made a huge mistake leaving their digital fingerprints there. I think I will make a video over the weekend.... a good opportunity to give dontbeanidiot.org
Gary from winelibrery uses Viddler, does he not? I will give the a shot over the weekend. I like disqus by the way. Looks like I will be using it quiet a bit. -
I meant to say it is a good opportunity to give dontbeanidiot.org a plug
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Glad to hear it.
Yes, Gary Vaynerchuk uses Viddler as does Justine Ezarik (iJustine).
If you check out their videos, you can see their viewers using the video player's integrated comments and tagging. pretty cool. -
Ok I am back with the picture... Ubuntu gives me some strange errors over on the disqus.com...
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Thanks everybody for the great comments on this post and giving Discus a quick workout. It says a lot about the discus service that we not only quickly got to 20 or so comments, but there was truly a discussion here that's easy to follow. I like it.
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Scott,
One more question. What will happen to all the old blog comments once I install disqus plugin? -
Never mind. I realized that I will have a choice on which posts to implement disqus comments.
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You're right Vlad. you can turn it on only for new posts, or all posts.
If you do turn it on for all posts, your existing comments remain in your database and are hidden by the disqus plugin.
They do not have an import function (yet) to allow you to pull all your old comments into their system. IntenseDebate does have that feature. -
I have chosen to turn disqus only on the posts that had 0 comments and all future posts. This should give me plenty of room to experiment. But I see myself switching completely....
I like it. Thanks for dragging me in. :) -
What blog did you do this on Sageblogger? If you do switch completely, you'll lose all the old posts. Disqus doesn't have an import feature.
well, you won't lose them, they'll get hidden. You can try it out and switch it back and the comments will reappear. -
Yes it's on Sageblogger... I will just wait, maybe they will come up with a export feature.
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More disqus feature testing: Apparently I can just reply via email to to
one of the notifications and it goes right into the discussion.
Now that's a great feature.
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Disqus < -
Yes I have noticed that.... I am writing a short post. I just want to see how is it handling the trackbacks... if it does at all.
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My understanding from reading around is that they don't currently handle trackbacks. At least not as of a month ago.
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I am replying to the comments via e-mail as well. Sweet.
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It worked. sweet. got to remember to clean out the quoted emails from the reply, though they almost got it.
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Jitendra
Scott,
Thanks for trying out SezWho and for a good analysis. We are working on a template for threaded comments where the comments...This skin would provide a standard look for comments with threading but would keep the comments within your system and thereby avoid all SEO issues.
Thanks, Jitendra (SezWho) -
Jitendra
oops...I meant "We are working on a template/skin for threaded comments for the comments" -Jitendra
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Jitendra,
It says (sez?) a lot that you're here answering questions and making comments. That's a great sign and I'll definitely keep an eye on SezWho going forward.
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Scott,
Did you use custom CSS for your disqus? -
I did not. What you see on Sam's and my sites is the standard look on the beta plugin.
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That is trange, mine looked much better with the stable version. Beta looks
all messed up. I thought it may took some time to repopulate my new set up.
I think my theme's CSS are messing up the look of Disqus comments. Any idea
how to fix it?
I am going to try the plugin on Go Beyond MLS, it should tell me if my theme
is messing it. I thought that maybe things got messed up because I had the
stable version installed first. But I deleted it completely before
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It mus be my theme. It works perfectly on Go Beyond MLS:
http://www.go-beyond-mls.com/more-threats/
I guess I need to look for a new theme for Sage Blogger.
