We have had a productive week over at Intense Debate. Earlier this week we announced the beginning of our Alpha period with a silent launch. The purpose of this is to grow organically and slowly ramp up our system while simultaneously trying to break i…

The last week has been amazing for me and for Intense Debate. Last Wednesday we were given a fairly positive review on TechCrunch.
Since that time we have been contacted by some great people who have really opened up the floodgates when it comes to the…

Great idea and looks great. A couple of questions.

1) Some of my posts on my blog get over 400+ comments, how well does this scale?

2) Will my existing (blogger) users be required to create New ID’s? if not is there a way to link to existing blogger accounts?

What a difference (less than) two years make! Here I was complaining about losing half the conversation …. two months later three comment tracking services debuted: coComment , MyComments and co.mments. Of these three, coComment developed dec…

I actually respect Josh from IntenseDebate. We’ve had a nice exchange about some ideas to improve their marketability and even though my suggestions may be total b.s., I respect him for listening.

As for the TechDumpster blog, our goal is just to tone down the hysteria a bit. Some people are trying to be aspirational (Michael Arrington), while others are actually lost (Scoble, Duncan Riley, Y Combinator, etc.).

I will say because of your suggestion it is on our radar screen and you do make good points.

This is a chicken-before-the-egg quandry. If no one adopts the OpenID, then not enough people are going to find out about it and no one will adopt it. How can people find out about it if everyone waits for someone else to implement it? Why not implement it because it’s a good idea, and give people the option of your login, or OpenID? Not only will you earn the respect of the growing OpenID community, but you’ll also be doing a service in promoting the service.

I agree… Even with smaller blogs, like mine, it makes reading the comments so much easier. The last few posts only 8 comments, 25 comments, and one on the post that was just made… Intense Debate has helped a ton. The design and structure make the experience that much better.

Also, zero spam comments…. usually askimet catches 1000/day

They are in beta, so there will be improvements/bug fixes as development continues.

currently we dont use openid. not because it isnt a good idea, but for two reasons. one, we would like our users to dictate what they want us to use. two, we have been so busy building our site that considering openid has not been at the top of our list.

Glad to see this service go up — it’s a good start in an area that could certainly use more help. While I agree with Andrew’s comment about smaller blogs not having enough comments to need a service like this, I think one of the nice elements of it is that it will actually encourage more comments — even on smaller blogs.

Plug this into TechCrunch. It will help your readers as much as it will your commenters.