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Discussing Disqus

Jul 3 2009 / 5:29 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

While we still dig the idea of what Disqus does, it is about time for us to reevaluate the necessity of it.  To be honest, it was installed in an attempt to gain conversation.  When conversation did not happen, it didn’t bother me that no one was talking, but it felt like we put this [...]

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Automattic Snatches Up Intense Debate

Sep 23 2008 / 3:03 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

Well when Intense Debate and Disqus were lesser known….it was a bit of a coin toss on which one to use. We tried installing one on each blog we had, but for some reason ID would not install properly. Disqus did, and that is why its still on the blog. Both comment systems have great [...]

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Disqus Fixes Almost Everything

Aug 12 2008 / 5:40 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

Disqus updated their product today. Made the site a bit less ugly. Enhanced the integration with your blog so you retained a database of your comments. Brought the management system into the Admin section of WordPress (it seems to be an iFrame, but its better than having to go to Disqus and login to moderate) [...]

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Comments Are Borked

Jul 4 2008 / 4:51 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

Well since there are so few commentors at this stage of the game, it is not a big deal that comments have gone wonky. The bigger deal is that I have no clue what broke them. Working on a fix…but I cannot be too mad, it is likely all my fault. **Update, I found them [...]

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Disqus Comments

May 30 2008 / 1:50 am Was written by Amber View Comments

Spam annoyed me so much that I signed up for Disqus comments. It seems promising and much more interactive. I tried Intense Debate and Sez Who on my other blogs. To a non-pleasant outcome. Intense Debate refused to install correctly on a blog freshly installed to the server, with no plugins. Sez Who installed easily [...]

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