Cool. I'll look a little deeper, but what I think I see here is a solution to a real problem.
The problem: that the social web hasn't given us nearly the benefits of asynchronous communication that we ought to be getting.
Sure, blogs are asynchronous. You post today, I read tomorrow. But the simple fact is that if I read your post more than about 30 hours after you post it, there's no point in commenting, because even the blogger won't continue following the discussion, let alone the straggling readers who come later.
(Yes I know there are exceptions. O'Reilly's "Blogger Code" thread lasted for many days. But let's not kid ourselves, they're exceptions.)
What we need is a tool that gives us the benefits of asynchronicity without the downside, which to date has been loss of continuity.
I'll be watching closely and almost certainly testing DISQUS on my blogs.
Pioneer1
· 2 years ago
WordPress sends an email when there is a comment and I reply to it no matter how old the post is.
Bob
· 2 years ago
I get similar notices from Radio Userland's comment system, reply to the commenter from e-mail, and (when appropriate) copy and paste the reply into the comment thread. Having that two-step process automated would be very nice.
Daniel Ha
· 2 years ago
Disqus does this.
With a registered account, you can turn on email notifications. Replying to the email will post it as a response in the comment thread.
maxhansen
· 2 years ago
Well, I've been turning off comments after a week to prevent spam. However, since I started using captcha it's worked pretty well and maybe I'll let comments go forever. Thx for the reply.
RacerRick
· 2 years ago
I like disqus. Because you're only running on JS on this page, it works much more smoothly than Fred Wilson's page.
Now your are closer to ditching WordPress!!
dave
· 2 years ago
Let me know what you think of this way of doing comments.
Stuart
· 2 years ago
Is this what's on AVC? I like the nested replies.
dave
· 2 years ago
Yes, it's the same comment system that Fred Wilson uses.
Andrew Scott
· 2 years ago
Just like the old days....
jamiequint
· 2 years ago
At least people are held accountable for what they say now. Seems like it my even cause less (irrational) anger :D
Dave - Any plans to do a NYTimesRiver-thing for other news publications? (sorry off topic)
amyloo
· 2 years ago
Like the idea of tracking comments across blogs. Like co-comment, but there's something nicer about it. Is there a way to turn off the anon option, I wonder?
Andy
· 2 years ago
Seems neat.
Maatez
· 2 years ago
You could probably wrap the comments in a table to make the width more narrow. Besides that, it seems useful.
David
· 2 years ago
This is pretty awesome. I really like the threaded comments and being able to rate it up or down reddit style.
Michael Markman
· 2 years ago
That this may be an outlet for other people's anger is, I hope, balanced by it's also being an outlet for other people's joy, support, and gratitude. Keep digging, Dave.
drew
· 2 years ago
i like it, styling fits into the page well. does it stop comment spam?
VO
· 2 years ago
Always want to try what Dave tries.
Seth E
· 2 years ago
"an outlet for people's anger so easily"
I've wondered why your comment section was hidden away. Kind of like the waiting period on buying a handgun, give 'em a little time to cool down.
jibi
· 2 years ago
thats a nice try ny way..!! Me too is almost for the same so called try...this is just being my first post and even doesnt know the way how it works out..even not quite confident to provide the anger outlet as I focus on some local subjects recently..still thinks a try..!! thats it..
Peter
· 2 years ago
Let's try this out. Of course, all the usual caveats. Can you get at your data? Etc?
tibor
· 2 years ago
Looks like something I want to play with for a bit!
vrypan
· 2 years ago
I like the usability part of it. However I'm really worried about the ownership part. I wouldn't like to give away the ownership of my and my readers comments. I want to be able to edit, backup, search, delete, mashup, etc comments in my blog.
Daniel Ha
· 2 years ago
Thanks for the feedback. We feel the same way - this is all possible with our service (except for search at the moment, but we have something cool in the works for that).
vrypan
· 2 years ago
If you could implement comments trackback (when a comment is posted to disqus.com, it sends a trackback with the full comment to my post) so my blog gets a full copy of it, I would be much more comfortable with it :-)
sebastian
· 2 years ago
Disqus (et al) is awesome. Yes, it is. It's the logic evolution of commenting and I'm happy to see it integrated in more and more blogs. The data exporting stuff I read about in the comments is cool, too. You're obviously listening, guys. That's awesome.
I wish you all the best. And please, don't let you get acquired too soon. You can make enough money off ads on the profile pages. Having a general commenting system owned by one company that has its own blog system doesn't seem a good idea to me. :)
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The problem: that the social web hasn't given us nearly the benefits of asynchronous communication that we ought to be getting.
Sure, blogs are asynchronous. You post today, I read tomorrow. But the simple fact is that if I read your post more than about 30 hours after you post it, there's no point in commenting, because even the blogger won't continue following the discussion, let alone the straggling readers who come later.
(Yes I know there are exceptions. O'Reilly's "Blogger Code" thread lasted for many days. But let's not kid ourselves, they're exceptions.)
What we need is a tool that gives us the benefits of asynchronicity without the downside, which to date has been loss of continuity.
I'll be watching closely and almost certainly testing DISQUS on my blogs.
With a registered account, you can turn on email notifications. Replying to the email will post it as a response in the comment thread.
Now your are closer to ditching WordPress!!
Dave - Any plans to do a NYTimesRiver-thing for other news publications? (sorry off topic)
I've wondered why your comment section was hidden away. Kind of like the waiting period on buying a handgun, give 'em a little time to cool down.
The data exporting stuff I read about in the comments is cool, too. You're obviously listening, guys. That's awesome.
I wish you all the best. And please, don't let you get acquired too soon. You can make enough money off ads on the profile pages. Having a general commenting system owned by one company that has its own blog system doesn't seem a good idea to me. :)