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Welcome to Disqus commenting!

Started by Mike Olbinski · 1 year ago

Okay, this is the official post with the new commenting system from Disqus enabled. We told you guys that we were going to test Disqus out this coming week, and it’s time to get the trial run started!
If you want to know more about it, read our post and go sign-up if you want, but otherwise, try to comment a bit below and tell us what you think!



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51 comments

  • adamczar

    1 year ago

    So psyched about this! :) Heh, I love it!
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  • Liv

    1 year ago

    So this is the answer of something different I see in this blogs. Seems it has point system...What for is that? Anyway, I like this new system because I can see people historical comments by pointing my cursor on their picts. Nice improvement.
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  • Mike Olbinski

    1 year ago

    Liv, the points are just to give people credit for cool comments, or negative points for sucky comments :) It's all for fun really...

    You can register if you want, there is a lot of fun stuff on your dashboard with Disqus.

    Glad you like it...I'm totally loving it myself :)
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  • Liv

    1 year ago

    I see...So, if now it shows that my points means somebody love my comments right ; ) ? ... I'll check the register step. Thanks for your info Mike...
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  • Mike Olbinski

    1 year ago

    Shouldn't be too hard to register Liv...let me know what problems you are having and I'll try to see what I can do.
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  • The Kid and I

    1 year ago

    I did it! Whoo hoo for me! :)
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  • Mike Olbinski

    1 year ago

    Woo!
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  • daddyjason

    1 year ago

    Good job. I knew you could do it.
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  • The Kid and I

    1 year ago

    This is so cool! I'm replying to the email to post my response!
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  • Mike Olbinski

    1 year ago

    Life is good :)
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  • robertb

    1 year ago

    Looks like you get some odd wrapping behavior when the comments nest down too far.
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  • Mike Olbinski

    1 year ago

    Yeah, it really does look like that. Might have to limit the nesting levels. Thanks.
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  • daddyjason

    1 year ago

    Maybe when we redo the site design we could do two columns and have a wider article and commenting area? Just a thought.
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  • Mike Olbinski

    1 year ago

    Yeah, definitely could do something like that...although I do like three columns. We could always shrink things up a bit, create like 20 more pixels wide or something.
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  • daddyjason

    1 year ago

    Well, you and I can definitely talk about this some more since we already have some ideas for the new site design, but it might be nice if people wanted to chime in with their opinions.
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  • Kory

    1 year ago

    Bueller...
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  • R.A. Porter

    1 year ago

    Here's another comment. It really does just look like it's part of the site. Much better integration than I'd expected, based on how ID looked.
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  • Mike Olbinski

    1 year ago

    Yeah, ID was a bit more intrusive looking...this isn't too bad. And I love the threaded commenting style.

    Also great that no one really has to mess with their avatars :)
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  • R.A. Porter

    1 year ago

    Are you going to swap out the 'Recent Comments' on the site with a Disqus widget?
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  • Mike Olbinski

    1 year ago

    Yeah, that's the next step...they have some nice widgets to use, and I think I'll set up an entire page dedicated to recent comments, which might be nice. I've always wanted a place to list like the last 50 comments, and Wordpress didn't make that easy to do AT ALL.
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  • The Trousered Ape

    1 year ago

    Looks like I will need to mess with my avatar - weird that it is not working.
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  • daddyjason

    1 year ago

    Dude, seriously. No one has ever had as much problems with avatars as you have.
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  • The Trousered Ape

    1 year ago

    Yeah - I'm trying to be as annoying as I can with this issue. :)
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  • Mike Olbinski

    1 year ago

    So did you sign up with Disqus and upload an avatar there to get it to work? or something else?
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  • The Trousered Ape

    1 year ago

    I signed up with Disqus, but I did not upload an avatar since I thought it was supposed to just grab the one I have at Gravatar. Is that not correct?

    What is strange is that I see my Ape avatar in my profile within the Disqus site, but it's not showing up here...
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  • The Trousered Ape

    1 year ago

    Also - it does not appear to be counting these as posts in the comments section (running total).
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  • Mike Olbinski

    1 year ago

    Well, I see your avatar here, might take you a second.

    Also, it's counting your comments, but it seems like it takes 10 minutes or so to update the Recent Comments widget, which you referred to.

    I already posted a thread on their forums asking about this.
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  • The Trousered Ape

    1 year ago

    Interesting - apparently I have become part of the 10-second-fast-food
    American crowd and did not even realize it. I'll try to be more patient. :)
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  • Mike Olbinski

    1 year ago

    Okay, I reduced nesting down to like 6 levels, to prevent the weird word wrapping thing.
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  • Mike Olbinski

    1 year ago

    Comment, comment, comment...
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  • The Trousered Ape

    1 year ago

    Cool man.
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  • Mike Olbinski

    1 year ago

    By the way, I love the fact that we all have no lives and are here commenting within seconds of me posting the blog :)

    Saturday night, 9:12...and I'm ready for bed :)
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  • Mike Olbinski

    1 year ago

    Here is the Comments page...kind of cool using their 3-tabbed widget...you can see top commenters, popular and recent.

    http://www.popcritics.com/comments/
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  • daddyjason

    1 year ago

    Is it just me or did the whole page just reload when I posted a comment? I'm not sure that's supposed to happen.
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  • Mike Olbinski

    1 year ago

    It happens anytime I comment here, or on Disqus even.
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  • daddyjason

    1 year ago

    That's weird. I was thinking it was Ajax or something. Maybe I just didn't notice. It's a lot more obvious here, I guess because it takes longer to load the page.
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  • daddyjason

    1 year ago

    No, I did the last comment on the Disqus page for this article and it didn't reload the whole page.
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  • Mike Olbinski

    1 year ago

    Well that is weird...oh well, it's the same as the old way I guess :)
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  • Mike Olbinski

    1 year ago

    The only other weird issue is the way things are sorting...kind of confusing.
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  • Mike Olbinski

    1 year ago

    Sorting correctly now...strange.
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  • Mythor

    1 year ago

    There's a couple of options in the "Configure" section of the Disqus dashboard to control comment sorting - Oldest, Newest, "Hot" and Best.
    I'm old fashioned so I'm using Oldest for my blogs, but I love that there's more options than that.

    (Just a random passerby who is new to Disqus, too. :) )
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  • Mike Olbinski

    1 year ago

    Thanks Mythor...I'm using Oldest too, but sometimes it just doesn't sort that way.

    Thanks for stopping by, don't be a stranger! :)
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  • jina

    1 year ago

    I am testing this... I hope my pic shows up.
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  • daddyjason

    1 year ago

    I see you.
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  • R.A. Porter

    1 year ago

    Okay, here's something I like less about Disqus.

    Unless there's a way to change my notification options, I only get emails for replies to my comments, not all comments on a post. Anyone know how to make that happen?
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  • JC John (ᜑᜓᜏᜈ᜔/謝施洗)

    1 year ago

    Hmm actually I noticed that too. Let's request for that option ;)
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  • Mike Olbinski

    1 year ago

    Sorry I missed this Richard...did you check your notification settings? You only have one thing there for notifications to a comment you made?

    I see others there, but I think it's because I'm a moderator of Pop Critics and A Mike Life.
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  • R.A. Porter

    1 year ago

    I think that's it. If you're a moderator you get the extra options. I only see:
    Enable email notifications for comments...
    - That are in response to me
    - From "Coyote Squirrel's Random Musings" (coyotesqrl.disqus.com)
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  • Mike Olbinski

    1 year ago

    Well it might be a good idea to post that idea on the Requests forum...seems like a good one.
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  • BIM

    11 months ago

    LOL - I was away for so long with work and travel that I just went through this tonight. Someone already signed up as BIM so I used another alias and then selected BIM as the name to appear next to my comments. Seems pretty cool to me.
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  • Mike Olbinski

    11 months ago

    How the heck could someone else choose BIM??? :)
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