EDIT: no longer using Disqus from 2010 onward.
After a lot of thought and consideration, I switched Broadcasting Brain over to the Disqus blog commenting system. You’ll notice the new look and feel in the comments section.
Disqus is a commenting system that allows you to maintain your blog comments on your website while also sharing them via a central repository. It helps expose the comments and the blog entries themselves to a larger group of people, as well as giving me new ways to track comments. A number of my fellow FriendFeed users have had many good things to say about Disqus and finally decided to take the plunge. The installation was slick and easy.
All comments that were here prior to Disqus will remain as they are. All new posts will use Disqus’s commenting functions.
Please note: you don’t need to be a Disqus user or member to leave comments here now! You just have to type in the same kind of identifying information that you did previously.
Having said all that, there are three things that could be affected by implementing Disqus:
1. CommentLuv WordPress plugin – I don’t think this will work anymore.
2. Top Commentators Widget – again, this probably won’t work either. I will definitely maintain the existing status until the end of June, though. Going to see if Disqus has any similar functionality.
3. Subscriptions to blog comments – I’m not sure how this will work yet.
I will sort these three things out during the next day or so.
I hope that this change hasn’t caused any problems for anyone. Just trying to improve the blog a bit.
Just a few points Mark. AS for the Top Commenters Disqus does have a widget that will provide that info for your sidebar. As for the CommentLuv plugin I remember mentioning the idea to Daniel when I first came across it and IIRC he said that might be something they would consider looking at as a feature.
Cool, thanks Steven.
Mark, im jst trying this out . .
Yes, Disqus is really a very useful system for comments. I am also using this system.