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louisgray.com: louisgray.com: Disqus Takes Commenting to the Next Level

  • James Mowery · 1 year ago
    Sounds good! I will upgrade soon.
  • Ryan · 1 year ago
    I am really curious on a technical level how they managed to make the comments indexable by search engines. Do they mean "...on our servers," perhaps, with those pages redirecting to the original content source? That would have certain pagerank or lock-in implications but would be an impressive feat nevertheless. Don't see how they can do it on the original pages since they implement on the client side using javascript, no?
  • Louis Gray · 1 year ago
    Ryan, when it comes to this type of thing, you're more technical than I am, for sure.

    My assumption is that their API for Wordpress and Moveable Type enables them to essentially write to their cloud as well as the local copy in parallel. This would mean you have a copy on the original content source, not just a redirection.

    As for those of us on these other "non hosted" platforms, like Blogger, we still have our comments in the cloud. I'm fine with that, but others have expressed concerns.
  • centernetworks · 1 year ago
    there's no more javascript on the wp plugin - others still js so no indexing
  • Ryan · 1 year ago
    OK, sounds like comments are indexable if you use a plug-in, eg on Wordpress. As a light user of Disqus (here and on Dave Winer's blog) I always figured it was mainly a way to get comments on sites that don't have them but sounds like it has evolved into something more if people are using it on Wordpress where commenting is available as a built-in feature.... Thanks for the info Louis and CN
  • Ryan · 1 year ago
    PS I kind of like the idea of comments systems as pluggable.... it's like the blogging platform is being split into various commodity components -- framework (wordpress, blogger, MT etc), comments (native, disqus), image hosting (flickr, s3, native), video hosting (youtube, vimeo, native) etc......
  • Ryan · 1 year ago
    Oh and don't forget authoring! (ecto, marsedit, native)
  • Daniel · 1 year ago
    Sorry, i'm still lost. How do Google index something that isn't been shown on the page? Disqus are still using javascript the display the comments, Wordpress isn't showing them. The only thing that you now have is a comments RSS feed.
  • Ari Herzog · 1 year ago
    If one does not upgrade, is there any detrimental effect, does anyone know? I don't use the service on my blog, but I've seen it used on many individual and corporate blogs.
  • Louis Gray · 1 year ago
    As a Blogger user, Disqus upgraded automatically for me, as did the Disqus.com site. I didn't have to install anything. I am unfamiliar with any needed changes on other platforms.
  • Daniel Ha · 1 year ago
    There is no detrimental effect if you do not upgrade.
  • Phil Glockner · 1 year ago
    I've been running it since it was first released, installed smooth but the local message sync seems to be broken -- it is importing multiples of each message into my local WordPress message store (approx 500 messages in Disqus, now up to 2000 in WP). I have left a message on the official support forum already.