How to create a new thread?

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Mark Wilden

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Aug 29, 2010, 11:57:12 PM8/29/10
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I know I must be missing something, but I don't see how to create a
new thread for a forum. I thought simply putting

<div id="disqus_thread"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var disqus_identifier = 'new-thread';
var disqus_title = 'New Thread';
var disqus_url = 'http://mwilden.com/test.html';
(function() {
var dsq = document.createElement('script'); dsq.type =
'text/javascript'; dsq.async = true;
dsq.src = 'http://independentlens2.disqus.com/embed.js';
(document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] ||
document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(dsq);
})();
</script>

on the page would do it. However, this code displays 27 posts that
have no immediate significance to me. I would like it to display 0
posts, and create the thread accordingly.

The URL is correct if you want to check it out.

///ark
Web Applications Developer
Center for Applied Biodiversity Informatics
California Academy of Sciences

Anton Kovalyov

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Aug 30, 2010, 1:55:35 AM8/30/10
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Hi Mark,

It seems to me that you already had a thread with identifier "new-thread" and that thread has those comments. Disqus gives disqus_identifier a priority over URL, so if it is defined we disregard URL and just load whatever thread identifier is pointing to.

Try changing disqus_identifier to the new value.

Anton


Mark Wilden

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Aug 30, 2010, 10:37:37 AM8/30/10
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On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Anton Kovalyov <an...@kovalyov.net> wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> It seems to me that you already had a thread with identifier "new-thread"
> and that thread has those comments.

That doesn't seem to be the reason, unfortunately. I just changed it
to 'super-duper-new' and I see the same 27 comments.

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Mark Wilden

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Aug 30, 2010, 11:49:40 PM8/30/10
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I created a new site and new thread creation works fine there. So we're good.

///ark
Web Applications Developer
Center for Applied Biodiversity Informatics
California Academy of Sciences

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Grant Turner

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Jan 29, 2015, 8:06:12 AM1/29/15
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I'm new to disqus, how did you set it up so you enable it to be used as a forum?
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