We ‘ve got a new comments system in place on the site, one I hope will work well for us so that we ‘ll be able to stick with it. Apologies that I ‘m having to switch this up again.  This was not my plan or desire at all.  I really wanted to stay […]
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Site Stuff – New Comments System

May 27th 2009 by

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We ‘ve got a new comments system in place on the site, one I hope will work well for us so that we ‘ll be able to stick with it.

Apologies that I ‘m having to switch this up again.  This was not my plan or desire at all.  I really wanted to stay with Disqus, as I liked a few of its features very much. 

Unfortunately, the number of issues it was causing was growing larger all the time, and the issues were getting more serious all the time “ and the support I was able to get was just short of entirely useless.

Others ‘ mileage may vary with Disqus “ and good for you / them if it does “ but for me the lack of timely support and other headaches just became too much.  If you ‘re a Friendfeed user at all, you may have come across some threads over there where other users have reported many issues with it as well.

Anyway, I had little choice but to change “ so as of a short while ago, the site is using Intense Debate for comments handling (and somewhere Brandon is chuckling).

Hopefully this change will not be too much of a pain to all of you, though I expect there will be some glitches and issues to deal with in making this transition.  Here are some things to note about the changeover:

  • You do not need to login “ to anything “ in order to comment. 
  • You will need to have one approved comment in order to have others published automatically (I monitor this as regularly as I can, so apart from comments made when I ‘m asleep, most first time comments should pass through quite quickly). 
  • All comments that contain a link will be held for moderation, even if you have previously published comments.
  • Right now, the Latest Comments widget in the sidebar is way off “ it is showing just one new comment, and then all very old comments.  I ‘m working on this and hope it will get resolved soon.

Again, apologies that we ‘ve had to make this change.  I hope the new system will work well.  Please let me know about any problems you have with it, or any thoughts you have about it.  Thanks for your patience, and please keep commenting “ makes the site a lot of fun. šŸ™‚

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