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Disqus – making blog comments social

I came across a service called Disqus today thanks to the blog over at Readburner… and I’m rather glad I did!

Disqus effectively creates a “forum” for your blog, allowing for threaded commenting and a community to grow around the comments themselves.

Disqus

I’ve added it to my blog as you can see – however as a consequence the existing comments are masked – the only drawback I’ve noticed so far. Disqus are looking at a comment import system – its listed within the settings for the plugin, but its not enabled just yet.

Anyway I’d urge anyone who blogs on a regular basis to check out Disqus

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 at 18:39 and is filed under Tech. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

  • YES! Disqus ROCKS. Hope they continue to expand the community. That will be key. Check out their community widget!
  • cool, glad you found Disqus through us, they are great :-)
  • Jay
    Thanks for the comment matey! And yeah Readburner's one of my new favorite sites... such a great idea. :)
  • thanks, glad you're enjoying it!
  • Jay, If you're interested in additional features such as ratings, ratings+comments, polls, top-rated content, scores, etc., check out www.js-kit.com. Super easy and friendly. Cheers, Nancy at js-kit.com.
  • Disqus is a great social blog comments system!
  • antikeyloggerantikeylogger
    This is my first comment but I feel like I should have been making loads of comments now because I always like your stuff. Maybe comments are for more hit and miss blogs than your own. When you maintain a consistent level of high quality output I reckon people are less inclined to comment because they have come to expect it from you. Just a theory.

    Never really occurred to me to leave a comment on the designboom weblog.. i mean sure, i read you guys everyday, but the posts i find interesting i fave or bookmark or share the url to others, rather than clicking the comment link.

    It's good to know your stand towards this comment thing going on. I've visited some design sites before that I find have repetitive comments from visitors, might be one of those you were pertaining to.

    I find I respect designboom more for the lack of comment obsession :)

    Antikeylogger

    anti keylogger
  • seems cool and useful
  • Disqus is really great
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