Quick Poll: Disqus or Intense Debate?
Pondered over the weekend about having more conversations in this blog. Boiled down to two 
commenting system – Disqus and Intense Debate?
Some of the reasons why I like both the services are:
- Both allows easy commenting which converts into conversations with nifty features to pull conversations from across the web like twitter, facebook, friendfeed etc.
- Threading is another features which allows commenting back not only to the blogger but also commenter which again multiplies into broad gauged conversations.
- Individual rating of comments and feedback is also easy which enables both the reader as well as blogger to understand the nature and depth of the content.
- Furthermore, it seems that these commenting system attract google juice (search engine) since they are SEO friendly. So it helps the cause too!
For the start, I’ve linked in to IntenseDebate (call it my love for Automattic who owns both IntenseDebate and Wordpress where this blog is hosted). But still undecided since I like those the systems and their features!
So you may have totally radical ideas about these two systems. Would like to hear from you more on this one! So please suggest which one is more conversation friendly? Since you’re the better judge, so would leave the judgment to you folks!
Below is a short poll on the same (feed readers, you got to click through)
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March 17th, 2009 at
Stick to Intense Debate.. there are rumors that there will be tighter integration with WP in a better way in the future
March 17th, 2009 at
Now that would be fab then. Thanks for the tip. Would be waiting for it!
March 20th, 2009 at
Sampad, have you also considered http://www.JS-Kit.com/comments – check out the feature list to see how many great things the plugin has to offer!
Full disclosure – I work there
I'd love to hear your thoughts on the product – we listen closely to improve things.
Cheers,
Chris
March 20th, 2009 at
Sampad, have you also considered http://www.JS-Kit.com/comments – check out the feature list to see how many great things the plugin has to offer!
Full disclosure – I work there
I'd love to hear your thoughts on the product – we listen closely to improve things.
Cheers,
Chris
March 21st, 2009 at
Surely, will do a quick check up with the commenting system. I guess I previously used your system in my earlier blog.
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Sampad
May 5th, 2009 at
Intense Debate's having an ironic affect on my blog: it's stifling discussion. The reason is, my readers hate logging in/registering for anything (I guess that's the type of reader I attract). But when they click on the comments link, the first thing they see is an ID "login to reply" button. They can post without logging in, of course, but the button makes them think otherwise. I've asked ID support if there's some way to disable that, but nobody's responded. A few more hours of no comments and I'm just going to have to disable ID.
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June 7th, 2009 at
Disqus for me :p
But seriously, I hope the OpenComments Group can put up some sort of standard so competing services like Disqus and IntenseDebate can sync at least profile and comment-tracking wise.
This way, an ID user can use his/her ID account to leave and track comments in a Disqus-enabled blog and vice versa.
For us techies, it isn't a problem at all – we all love to have accounts everywhere
Like now, I have this ID account before Automattic acquired them 
But I'm full support for Disqus. (Not to mention, almost all blogs I visit use Disqus.)
June 20th, 2009 at
Thanks for the tips man.
July 20th, 2009 at
I've been looking at both but going with Disqus. I need something that can intergrate with Joomla easily as well as WP. Disqus has a plugin for Joomla (admitedly a bit quirky at times) but ED doesn't appear to have this at all. I may be wrong I suppose.
July 20th, 2009 at
I've been looking at both but going with Disqus. I need something that can intergrate with Joomla easily as well as WP. Disqus has a plugin for Joomla (admitedly a bit quirky at times) but ED doesn't appear to have this at all. I may be wrong I suppose.
December 25th, 2009 at
ID is the best