New Comment System, Disqus
I’ve installed a new commenting system. It’s called DISQUS and, despite the DISQUSting name, seems to offer some nice features for comment tracking around the Web. Believe it or not, I sometimes think, “Wouldn’t it be nice if there were better comment tracking around the Web.” It just shows the depths to which these technologies can reduce a man.
Anyhoo, I’ll happily change it back to the familiar old WordPress system if any of you find it difficult to use, or just prefer the old version. So, please let me know how you get on with it. It’s there, by the way, under this post…
Now of course I have to leave a comment just to test it out
Hehehe, my evil plan snares my first victim…
Oh good, I already have a disqus account. What are the nice features?
muhahaha =P Glad to see you on Disqus, if you have any questions just shoot me a message http://disqus.com/help
Well, what actually attracted me was the UI, which I thought looked neat and intelligible. Then there was the idea that I could moderate all the comments across all my sites in a single place, filter and sort comments by various criteria, and view them by thread (essentially, by post). I don't get an overwhelming number of comments but already I find that I miss one or two. Then there's the Disqus Profile stuff but I'm not sure I'll be using that. (Then again, I never thought I'd be using Twitter.)
Nice! And then there's the e-mail when you get a reply to your comment – I like that.
ycccch. One of the worse I've seen.
Well, Name, I'm beginning to think you might be right. Although the global features of Disqus are quite nice, I don't like the way it appears within a post. For a start, if you get the nesting of a reply wrong, your comments appear all out of synch. Also, it doesn't seem to be able to count how many comments there are. Others have been confused by the fact that it tells you how many comments you yourself have made, rather than how many are in the thread you're looking at. This is a serious breach of a well-established convention and on its own is enough to make it a bad user interface.