Disqus, the enhanced blog commenting system, has launched a 2.0 version of its software that includes a host of new features, including a new plugin for WordPress, an improved developer API, and an overhauled UI for its main site.
One of the biggest concerns many people have had about Disqus is that the service stores comments remotely, which could cause issues if users ever decide to stop using it. The new 2.0 release of the Disqus plugin for WordPress remedies this issue by automatically syncing comments back to your WordPress database, though the comments are still pulled from Disqus servers when a user browses to your blog. This way, users who decide to stop using Disqus can move on to another comment system without losing any data.
Other new features from the plugin include the ability to moderate comments directly from the WordPress dashboard and to import or export comments at will. The plugin also allows search engines to index comments (another concern with external comment systems).
Disqus has redone the interface for its main site, which users can use to track their conversations on blogs across the web. CEO Daniel Ha says that the new version has been tweaked to make everything more intuitive for first time users (it’s also much easier on the eyes). The other main adjustment is a shift in the focus of the user profile page, which is now more of a life stream of a user’s comments on the web rather than a traditional profile.
Disqus’s improvements – most importantly the allowance for comment backup to your own server – makes it an appealing alternative to the standard WordPress comment system. There are a number of other comment systems available, including SezWho, Intense Debate, and JS-Kit.
WordPress sync was the main reason I never took a serious look at Disqus before. I will now.
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I plan to use something like this on my site soon!
http://www.FliteRecord.com
I use Disqus on one of my blogs, I love the layout and the ease to work with it on disqus.com
http://blabtech.blogspot.com
Anyone other suggestions on comment engines running within the Django framework?
http://exampleforum.disqus.com
“Sorry, we couldn’t find that page.”
That’s from the crunchbase description BTW.
Should be a great thing to try!
I’m a big fan of Disqus, though have found the javascript implementation awkward. Since there’s a WP plugin, why not draw the Disqus code on within the PHP engine?
That is what the new release does.
All that Javascript is not good for my blog. We tried it fro a week and got a LOT of complaints from users. We also noticed a HUGE drop in visitors from SEO since the SEO from comments accounts for more than 30% of traffic on our site. Be VERY careful with this sort of tech.
Also, most people don’t care about all these ‘advanced’ features of a comment blog. People care about easy registration (or no reg at at all) and about moderation. They don’t care about voting etc.
My suggestion is that you stick to default WP comments or add a plugin that has threading and host your own comments! Do not let other steal that away from you.
It is as if you didn’t read the article. Everything you complain about has been addressed:
1) SE indexable comments? Check
2)Lack of a need for registration? Check (admin must specify)
3) Full access to comment DB? Check
FYI nobody really uses the voting feature from what I’ve seen. I don’t even have an account, but I have used it to comment anonymously a whole bunch.
BIG PROBLEM HERE IS DUPLICATE CONTENT!
Disqis hosts your comments on their site too and indexes them with the same seo friendly urls as your site… so you will be competing with them for the same terms and phrases with very similar content… this can’t be good for seo in google. So it would not surprise me if your site takes a hit in the rankings.
Fail.. I dumped them.
wow
disqus is fucking rad. that is all. thanks.
Hii
Hi Jason,
Nancy at JS-Kit here just wanting to point out that we announced these features and more on July 8th (see Calley Nye’s article in TC here http://www.tech...vider-haloscan/).
JS-Kit announced syncing with Blogger as well as WP, and since then added import/export capability with Intense Debate and Disqus.
Thanks for the mention.
Nancy
But you are not a YCombinator startup, so you’ll get no headlines here.
Nice comment. Though we’ve had several:
http://www.tech...vider-haloscan/
http://www.tech...otential-users/
http://www.tech...ducts-and-more/
http://www.tech...ratings-widget/
http://www.tech...ion-seed-round/
http://www.tech...or-lazy-people/
http://www.tech...ts-to-any-site/
Cheers, N
Nice comment. Though one does not have to ’sign’ their comments, it isn’t email (notice the ‘Name’ field? That’’s what it’s for).
Are you sure you know what you are doing?
@Tim: Give it a rest. Why on earth does that matter to you?
The most important question of all: does Disqus now support TRACKBACKS!?
Yes. http://blog.dis...acks-in-disqus/
Question. How does compare with Intense Debate?
When will TC ever get a full-featured comment system, like Disqus?
When it is open source and can be installed on their servers so that Arrington can keep the site stats out of everyone’s hands.
Awesome, I have been using Disqus 1.0 on my blog (http://www.ATLChris.com) but I am very much looking to upgrade to 2.0 tonight. Pingbacks, indexing, local storage, NICE update Daniel!
Seems great! Will surely use it on my blog (http://www.ProgrammerFish.com)
Just a test to see if this works.
When I first saw the Disqused I loved it. I placed it on my web site and I must say that it is very good. A lot of options and very easy to install.
Excellent Commenting System.
-> Not much else to say. And yet its that good !
Disqus is fine for me. I just hope that they will be reliable regarding the fact that all data is on their servers. I hope that that backup system will be really reliable.
Disqus is great for movable type blogs.
Disqus is good but i also like the Intense Debate.
BackType is best for managing tweets and social news !
Note: I read the reviews of Scobleizer and recomend it for others http://scobleiz...ggers-at-first/