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

Phil Glockner — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:21:03 -0000

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.

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

Daniel — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:57:46 -0000

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.

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

obscurelyfamous — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:53:25 -0000

There is no detrimental effect if you do not upgrade.

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

Louis Gray — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:48:29 -0000

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.

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

Ari Herzog — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:46:24 -0000

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.

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

Ryan — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:53:51 -0000

Oh and don't forget authoring! (ecto, marsedit, native)

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Ryan — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:53:04 -0000

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......

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

Ryan — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:50:40 -0000

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

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

centernetworks — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:43:24 -0000

there's no more javascript on the wp plugin - others still js so no indexing

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

Louis Gray — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:00:18 -0000

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.

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

Ryan — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:58:00 -0000

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?

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

James Mowery — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:42:33 -0000

Sounds good! I will upgrade soon.