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IntenseDebate vs DISQUS

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Over the last few days I’ve played around with commenting services IntenseDebate and DISQUS. I’ve used both services lightly in the past to comment on various blogs. While both services are nice, for me IntenseDebate always felt a little rough around the edges. Perhaps more importantly, DISQUS appears to be more popular, which of course means more people likely to leave comments. And well, that’s what it is really all about. Reach.

One thing that has become obvious to me is that both companies are passionate about their product.

After leaving a comment on another blog that was discussing these two services, I was contacted by Michael Koenig from IntenseDebate. He gave me a heads up on a new IntenseDebate-WordPress plugin that is currently in beta. He’s also taken the time to stop by on here, and post a few comments. From what he said, it sounds like the new ID plugin is going to be pretty sweet and might actually polish off a few of those rough edges I mentioned.

On the flip side, I was contacted by Daniel Ha, CEO of DISQUS, concerning my decision to leave their service. As I’ve already mentioned, my sole reason for leaving DISQUS was the FUBAR import process that decided to take a trip around the world before importing my comments. Daniel sent a nice email, saying sorry to hear about my issue, that others experienced the same thing, and it has since been resolved.

Got to give both companies an A+ for their customer interaction!

So… the reason I left DISQUS is no longer an issue, and the things I disliked about ID may no longer be an issue. So that brings me back to a question I asked a few days ago. DISQUS or IntenseDebate. Which to use? Of course, I cannot exactly make a decision about ID until I see the new plugin.

Which service do you have experience with? Which service do you like better? Why? If you were to go with one for your site, which would you go with?

I’d really like some feedback on this! Thanks!

d3bruts1d.com Comments Powered by DISQUS

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I have switched my comment system from the default WordPress system to DISQUS. This new system will allow me easier management of comments, threading of comments, as well as some additional features for users.

Right now the existing comments are in the process of being migrated into the DISQUS system. You will be able to post a comment without being registered with DISQUS, however there will be a moderation queue for such comments. Register for free, and you’re comment will appear automatically.

Additionally, once you register you’ll be able to comment on any other blog that uses this DISQUS system. Nice, eh? And for those of you that use FriendFeed, your comments will be available there as well.

Changes To d3bruts1d.com

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Yesterday I rolled out an updated theme (created by me) to the site. Overall, I’m pretty happy with the theme, though it took me a bit longer than I had hoped to finish. Strike that, because technically it’s not finished, there are still a couple minor things that I need to clean up…. like adding some kind of “logo”.

There has been far more customization in this theme than the previous d3theme. Before I had based my theme loosely on others in the WordPress community, but this time I redid everything from scratch. Because this theme is intended solely for me, I’ve hard coded some things into the theme which should mean less database queries, which in turn should mean things run faster. We’ll see how it goes for a few days, I may need to tweak some things later.

I am still relying on a number of plug ins to do some stuff. Let’s face it, plug ins make life easier. ;) Among the plug ins I use are… Continue reading →

Site Updated

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Last night I updated d3bruts1d.com to WordPress v2.6. I’d like to say the update went smothley, and maybe it did but I had a slight scare.

Upon updating to the latest version, I tried to log into the admin section. I was told the database needed to update, so I went ahead with that (usually I’d do a backup first). After the update I returned to the admin section, only to continually received messages telling be to login again. Unable to log in, I decided to reset the password for my account. New password still wouldn’t work.

Needless to say, panic started setteling in. I quickly googled “wordpress cannot login 2.6” and ended up here. The solution was quite simple, and frankly one I should have tried before resetting my password, delete your cookies. Doh! That’s what I get for running my update late.

In addition to the WordPress update, I also updated ShareThis. Previously you had something like 15 options to select from. Now you’ve got 33. So if you like something I post, feel free to hit the ShareThis link under each post and submit it to your favorite site, email it, or link back to me. :)