{"id":2112,"date":"2008-01-13T20:51:44","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T01:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/01\/13\/disqus-some-thoughts-on-comments\/"},"modified":"2008-01-13T20:51:44","modified_gmt":"2008-01-14T01:51:44","slug":"disqus-some-thoughts-on-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/01\/13\/disqus-some-thoughts-on-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Disqus: Some thoughts on comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you come to my blog much (as opposed to just reading the RSS feed), you’ve probably noticed that I’m using a comment-handling system called Disqus, which has been in beta for the past few months or so. Fred Wilson of A VC<\/a> uses it too, and so does Andrew Baron<\/a> of Rocketboom, and so does my pal Dave Winer<\/a>. Founder and CEO Daniel Ha asked me to try it out and so I’ve been using it since about November.<\/p>\n

As with some other comment-aggregation systems, such as CoComment.com (which I also used for awhile), Instense Debate<\/a> and SezWho<\/a>, Disqus gives you a central place where you can track all of your comments, and it also gives you a built-in, threaded commenting system for your blog — which if you use WordPress, as I do, comes in the form of a plugin. It’s easy to set up and easy to administer, and you can decide whether to let it handle all your comments or only the new one.<\/p>\n

Disqus.com has avatars for those who register, and it also gives users the ability to rate a comment. The registering part has irritated more than one reader, but I figure it’s a small price to pay for a lack of spam. In the few months I’ve been using it, I’ve had two pieces of comment spam make it into my email inbox — everything else has been handled by Disqus. One of the best parts of the system is that when you get an email notifying you there’s a comment, you can simply reply to the email and it gets posted as a comment in reply, which is a huge time-saver.<\/p>\n

There are a couple of things that I don’t like about Disqus. For one thing, it doesn’t support trackbacks — although Daniel said they were working on something that would take the place of trackbacks. Another thing is that if you create a draft post in WordPress, it can be revealed on your Disqus comment page even if it hasn’t been published; Daniel said this was a flaw and they were planning to fix it. <\/p>\n

The other little thing is that it took me awhile to figure out how to delete a comment (you have to click on the person’s avatar to get a menu). Other than those quibbles, I think Disqus is an excellent system and I intend to continue using it. The best part is that I find myself commenting more, and that is (I think) a good thing. If you have any thoughts about it, please let me know — in the comments \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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If you come to my blog much (as opposed to just reading the RSS feed), you’ve probably noticed that I’m using a comment-handling system called Disqus, which has been in beta for the past few months or so. Fred Wilson of A VC uses it too, and so does Andrew Baron of Rocketboom, and so … <\/p>\n

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