Disqus

[Khaled Abou Alfa]

Has anyone seen this? 

[drzax]

Yes.

On Sep 23, 7:27 am, Khaled Abou Alfa <khaled.aboua...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Has anyone seen this?

[Michael C. Harris]

2009/9/23 Khaled Abou Alfa <khaled....@gmail.com>:
> Has anyone seen this?

I've been using Disqus for a while now, as have others, notably AndyC.
There is a Habari plugin, but I'd strongly recommend not using it (it
was written before they had an API and is really hacky and buggy).
They have instructions for integrating directly in your theme.

I wouldn't outsource my comments again, and will migrate back to
native comments when I have the time to do so (which will probably
involve fixing the plugin and including comment export). Part of the
original attraction for me was outsourcing spam filtering, but I think
they've done a fairly poor job of managing spam. There are other
annoying things, like ending up with multiple comment threads for one
post (if a query string is different it will be treated as a different
post) and there's no way to tell Disqus they're the same post.

--
Michael C. Harris, School of CS&IT, RMIT University
http://twofishcreative.com/michael/blog
IRC: michaeltwofish #habari

[Khaled Abou Alfa]

Gotcha.

That's a shame, as I was really liking the integration between various social networks and twitter as well. Because it's true, comments are no longer in one place, they're on your facebook account, via twitter and whole knows where else, finding a way to integrate all of them together somehow would be pretty good fun.

Is there anything similar to Disqus that I'm not aware of (clearly completely out of the loop these days).

[Michael C. Harris]

2009/9/23 Khaled Abou Alfa <khaled....@gmail.com>:

> Gotcha.
> That's a shame, as I was really liking the integration between various
> social networks and twitter as well. Because it's true, comments are no
> longer in one place, they're on your facebook account, via twitter and whole
> knows where else, finding a way to integrate all of them together somehow
> would be pretty good fun.
> Is there anything similar to Disqus that I'm not aware of (clearly
> completely out of the loop these days).

There are quite a few comment outsourcing platforms. They each have
their own issues, and Disqus is among the best of them. Notable ones
include JS-Kit, IntenseDebate, SezWho (did that die?)

[Andy C]

Disqus had a few attractions and I like the service.

I don't mind outsourcing my comments (after all they're as much your
comments as mine) but unfortunately, spammers (and Disqus' failure to
deal with them effectively) have spoiled the service.

If Habari had a Disqus XML importer, I also would strongly consider
moving back to native comments (with Defensio) where you only
outsource the anti-spam measures.

On Sep 23, 5:28 am, "Michael C. Harris" <michael.twof...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> 2009/9/23 Khaled Abou Alfa <khaled.aboua...@gmail.com>:

[Khaled Abou Alfa]

I had to disable comments (although I think the code that I was using was not 'complete') for a couple of reasons. The first was because the spamming was getting on my nerves. It wasn't a lot but it was this constant stream that was just annoying. The problem with that of course is that you cut off communication, but communication continues in different outlets as far as I'm concerned (like I said in different places).

I'll have a look around and see what are the best things out there, maybe we can make ourselves a homebrew plugin that collects things and puts them in one place (ie on the side) :)

[Ryan Mullins]

I'm currently working on a Facebook Connect plugin.  It keeps the comments local to Habari, and just uses the identity login from Facebook for the visitors, and gives you a share via FB link.  I've just been a little slammed with work here lately, so I've fell behind a little bit on development.

Is that something more along the lines that you are looking for?

-Ryan