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Disqus - After 5 Days on Disqus, I’m Turning Back to Wordpress Comments

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Re: Disqus - After 5 Days on Disqus, I’m Turning Back to Wordpress Comments

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Post by nickb »

Are threaded comments the killer feature of Disqus? I've never written a comment system myself but I don't think it's hard to hack it into an open source blog soft like WordPress. For hosted solutions like Blogger Disqus is awesome since you don't have to wait on Google to finally update it (and it looks like Google has abandoned Blogger).

Re: Disqus - After 5 Days on Disqus, I’m Turning Back to Wordpress Comments

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Post by srini »

danielha wrote: post #3

Hey Ryan, I responded to your comment here: http://ryanspoon.com/blog/2008/05/15/disqus-after-5-days-on-...

This doesn't answer Ryan's key complaint though: that disqus sucks up all the SEO from blog comments on blogs that use it.

Re: Disqus - After 5 Days on Disqus, I’m Turning Back to Wordpress Comments

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Post by bigtoga »

srini wrote: post #6
danielha wrote: post #3

Hey Ryan, I responded to your comment here: http://ryanspoon.com/blog/2008/05/15/disqus-after-5-days-on-...

This doesn't answer Ryan's key complaint though: that disqus sucks up all the SEO from blog comments on blogs that use it.

I think it's clear that they know that - it was the point of Ryan's post - but have chosen to not address it. As I see it, there is no good that can come (for them) from admitting this "feature". If they say, "Yes, it's a problem but..." then people will latch onto that. If they say, "It's not a problem though!" then people will ballyhoo them. If they ignore it though maybe the commenters will go away...

Re: Disqus - After 5 Days on Disqus, I’m Turning Back to Wordpress Comments

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Post by bigtoga »

berecruited wrote: post #2

I'd actually love to install Hacker News style comments... You?

I like threaded comment systems and I prefer digg/reddit since I can collapse them. Really though - how hard could it be? Any capable hacker could write the system to do such a thing in less than a day I would guess.

Re: Disqus - After 5 Days on Disqus, I’m Turning Back to Wordpress Comments

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Post by Jasber »

I'm wrestling with this same problem.

Killer Disqus Features:

* Ability to reply to a comment via e-mail (awesome!)

* Automatic notification when a reply is made to your comment

* Rating comments

* Threaded

Deal Breakers:

* Done completely in Javascript. Sure this sucks for SEO, but for usability this just isn't acceptable. Users without Javascript don't see comments? I'm not OK with that.

* Comments hosted off site: I'm not hosting the comments. This may not seem like a big issue but it is.

Disqus looks great and I'll try it in the future if they ever get these problems ironed out.

In the meantime I am satisfied using WordPress plugins (or making my own) to get disqus-like comments working.

Re: Disqus - After 5 Days on Disqus, I’m Turning Back to Wordpress Comments

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Post by superkarn »

berecruited wrote: post #2

I'd actually love to install Hacker News style comments... You?

I like Hacker News comment system (though presentation could be better). I like the fact that you see the most relevant comments first. Whereas most other comment systems (even those with points) are chronological.

ps Digg just updated their comment system.

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