My DISQUS Experience and Decision
It wasn’t that long ago that I ran a poll here on the JMG-Galleries blog to get your feedback on using DISQUS. The results are visible on the original post Poll: Should I keep using DISQUS on my Blog?
I found it really interesting that up until the last day the vote was a dead heat. I had an even number of votes for, against and “no opinion” up until the last day and then after that I received all positive comments & votes for DISQUS. This in combination with the incredible support I’ve received from DISQUS I’ve decided to keep using it on the blog. In fact I would recommend its use to other bloggers.
DISQUS is great in that it mirrors your comments and doesn’t replace the comment functionality of WordPress. This helps if you decide to stop using it… you’ll never lose your comments as they’re still stored with in your site and will appear normally after using DISQUS. It’s also cool in that you can have real-time nested conversations with out reloading the page. I’m also fond of the fact that comments are pulled in from other social media sites like Twitter and Facebook.
There are some downsides. I do find that I have to double manage spam that slips through on Wordpress and DISQUS. Fortunately its very easy to manage such situations with DISQUS. I also had an initial problem that my comments weren’t fully imported into DISQUS when I started. This was quickly remedied by DISQUS support. It would seem the number one reason people have issues with DISQUS as in not being able to comment is a result of firewall issues. I’m not sure if this is due to people accessing my site from well fortified corporate networks or personal firewall software but that does appear to impact a small minority of users. I’m working with DISQUS to narrow down the cause of this.
While I had some initial challenges, the last couple of weeks my experience has been great. If you haven’t tried DISQUS you should check it out. If DISQUS isn’t your thing I’ve heard great things about BackType as well.
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Hi Jim,
Did you compare DISQUS to other commenting systems such as Intense Debate? I would be interested to hear about any comparisons that you did. I have seen a number of reviews, but the relative pros and cons change as updates are made.
Clarence
P.S. The Facebook connect login did not work for me.
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I recently added Disqus as the commenting system on Social Photo Talk for many of the same reasons you noted… the ability to pull in external comments and reactions from other sources (without having to use a hodgepodge of potentially-incompatible plugins) was the main driver for me.
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Clarence thanks for the comment. Let me know if the login works for you at a later time. I'll have to test it out to make sure its working 100%. I thought it was.
I have not tested Intense Debate… yet. I didn't want to push my luck with my readers here jumping from system to system. If someone has experience with Intense Debate I'm open to hearing it through a comment or a guest post.
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Aaron you'll have to let me know what your thoughts are on it after you use it for a while.
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I initially installed Intense Debate, however changed to Disqus within 24 hours and I'm happy with the experience so far.
I agree with you in regards to the “reactions” from other Social Media sites.
So far no problem with spam, but my experience is that it comes in waves so I'll wait and see.
I also like the agregation of my comments from other sites – seen in the Disqus interface. Nice.
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Dear Sir,
I too have an account at Disqus and am tryiing to put together the real-time commenting for my website.
I could only incorporate their old style commenting but not the real-time one.
My comment division shows disqus comments without the Real time commenting enabled/paused message.
Can you pl let me know step by step process to achieve this. (I have seen disqus help but was not able to use it successfully.
Pl let me know what I should do, preferably by Email
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Dear Sir,
I too have an account at Disqus and am tryiing to put together the real-time commenting for my website.
I could only incorporate their old style commenting but not the real-time one.
My comment division shows disqus comments without the Real time commenting enabled/paused message.
Can you pl let me know step by step process to achieve this. (I have seen disqus help but was not able to use it successfully.
Pl let me know what I should do, preferably by Email
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It would be great if Disqus could recognize a Facebook fan age and bring comments in from there. As far as I know. the only Facebook involvement is allowing the commenter to use FB credentials as logon.
Backtype is great as a way to aggregate all your (or someone else's) comments on the web [ such as http://www.backtype.com/davidsanger ]
You can also follow all the comments on a given post, or by a given person.
Backtype Connect shows the comments and reactions for a post ( like http://j.mp/1JDoTN) , but doesn't host or manage comments.
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Disqus is a boon to blog reader…. it accepts comments so fast…
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yes. I have the same question with Clarence Holmes .Did you compare DISQUS to other commenting systems such as Intense Debate.
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