Trying Out A New Comment System

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1. testing testing one two three

2. hmm its faster, lighter and cuts out the capcha.nice,

   1. does it include threading?

      1. Apparently so. Fred, can I add this to my self-hosted WordPress blog?

         1. Hi Jason, I sent you an email.

   2. I think comments have needed some overhauling for a while. I never understood why “regular blogs” didn’t have the threaded comments I learned to love at livejournal. There’s so much that can be done with just a static list.

   3. cool!

3. I like the point system for comments

4. As long as it works. Gotta keep my frequent commenter status.

   1. With an account, you can keep an ongoing commenter reputation.

5. will I did like it until I tried to post the a comment and got”403 ForbiddenCross Site Request Forgery detected. Request aborted.”

   1. – original comment -I like!like how you can go to disqus and sort comments by hotness, best etc.

   2. Thanks for bringing that to our attention, Trev. That should only come up when, well, that’s actually detected. ;)We’re looking into it right now.

   3. Sounds painful, but otherwise this looks cool and a step up in reading productivity!

6. Giving it a try.

7. Looks really cool. Though an openid signup would be great!

8. i’ll let you know in 5 seconds

9. how far can you thread these comments?

   1. Anyone dare to find out?

      1. I’m willing to help try.

         1. One more level perhaps?

10. me eat venture capitalists for lunch

11. Is this SezWho, or an alternative?

    1. Hah – should have read below the fold before asking that question … notice it doesn’t remember my details (name/email/blog) for the next comment

       1. This has been added. Thanks for bringing it up.

12. Anyone care to register a guess on who this secret comment start-up might be ;-)I’ll start: http://www.techcrunch.com/2…

    1. Looks like Disqus to me …

       1. That’s neat – I made that last reply on the Disqus site and it appeared here on A VC pretty snappily … nice so far. If you follow the discussion on the Disqus site you can double-click the Name/Email/Website boxes and the browser will help you with previously-entered values, but that doesn’t work on Fred’s site until you start entering something

          1. testing.-edit- yeah creating a account on their site keeps track of comments and keeps you logged in.

    2. There is no secret. I am the co-founder of intense debate and we have been in the open for quite a while.

       1. Oh, this is the night of Commenting 🙂 I just read the Intense Debate post on TechCrunch, and seeing the some of the attributes, I actually thought this was the same, with a different skin. Then it turns out to be Disqus… wow 🙂

          1. Ouch, that looks ugly, sorry 🙁

13. This must be http://disqus.com/. Cant hide source!

    1. If you scroll down to the bottom of the comments it invites you to follow the discussion at Fred’s Disqus site …

14. gotta plan

15. Fred, when I saw you at the Facebook hackathon I mentioned how much I liked your North Country Girl set last winter. Today Pandora played me a Jimmy Buffett, Live at Fenway, version of Southern Cross, a wonderful, soulful song. That sent me to Youtube where I found a CSN “coffee house” version from early days, the Live Aid version, and a 2006 reunion version. The musical quality of all the YouTube tracks was very poor, but the song remains poignant and beautiful. I was at Live Aid in 85, so memories return.

    1. My view is that, in a comment thread on comments it is impossible to be off topic.

       1. Well, I just went back to YouTube and listened to Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan doing North Country Girl in 1969….then, a new discovery; from the “related” box on the YouTube page. Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson doing Pancho and Lefty. Very wonderful.

16. Woah, now this will be interesting:disqus = appears to be a Y Combinator start-up. intense debate = a TechStars start-up.Both have the same offering. Even the interface appears to be the same. Interesting coincidence to say the least. Will be fun to watch it play out 🙂

    1. Disqus is written on Django, it seems. I’m not a designer/programmer and not that familiar with Django, but it seems snappy.

17. Seems pretty similar to Intense Debate from TechStars, but with fewer features.

18. I think disqus is going to do well – such an obvious problem that has never been tackled the right way. Looks like they’re solving that problem.

19. Looks good to me. No captcha. Amazing

20. Looks to me like disqus just ripped it off from intense debate.

    1. Yah…you’re right! They wrote the whole thing in the 3 hours following Intense Debate getting TCed. These guys must be some hardcore hackers!

       1. I’m getting a little tired of features getting attention. It’s a feature. It’s a feature. It’s a feature.yawn.

          1. Sure, it’s merely a feature. But it’s a really good feature. That makes all the difference.

       2. They sure are!

21. I am pleased to be trying out this new comment system in a natural fashion.

    1. threaded here.

       1. <img src=”http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/2699/th2619kz7.gif” border=”0″ alt=”Image Hosted by ImageShack.us”/>Shot at 2007-08-03

          1. We’ll coming up with a good approach to handling posting media in blog comments.For now, if you view this thread on the forum (follow the link at the bottom), you are able to embed images with your new comment.Let us know what you think!

22. very cool!

23. Hmmm… what’s the big deal here ?

24. seems real cool, natural and nothing getting in the way of the stream of consciousness. If it’s secure and still viable without the captchas then i’m a fan already

    1. what’s with the scoring system though?who gets to decide the position of the commentary?

       1. will it support CoComment?

       2. you can help decide by voting up or down. the default sorting method is ‘hottest’ which is the most popular at this particular moment, but it can be viewed as newest, nominal best, etc.

25. Oh, the highlighting parent-child thing is awesome when you mouse over a child name/photo.

    1. I don’t like that it sent me to their website to view the entire comment thread. Also, my brand new comment got stuck between 2 older ones over here. Weird.

       1. The display sorting can be changed by the owner (Fred :). By default, it’s sorted by the hottest comments (the most popular comments at the time). Also, the entire comment thread is viewable here. That link just allows you to view it in the context of the blog’s full forum, so you can start a new topic that isn’t in response to the blog entry. Thanks. 🙂

26. Looks tidy 🙂

27. 52 comments in the past 7 hours! I guess the way to get a lot of comments is to try a new comments system.

28. +1 vote from me, looking good.

29. A cross-browser WYSIWYG editor would be nice to have along with an extended menu panel allowing me to insert some previously uploaded media to go along with my comment.

30. it is smarter

31. Hello Fred,I liked it quite a bit but somehow getting some JS errors… morever I find it a bit slow… Another thing is about the UI the Mouse users really have to move a long way to click on the comment before filling in some info…Adding counts and latest comments can help more…RegardsSameer Shaikhhttp://pm-better-than-sex.b…

    1. Thanks for the suggestions, Sameer. We build the implementation to be as noninvasive as possible, but we’re always improving on this. I wasn’t able to replicate those JS errors — I’d appreciate it if you sent me the details at [email protected] (Sorry I wasn’t able to locate your contact info).

32. Comment

33. Looks good. What platforms is/will it be available for?

34. taking one for the team just to see how the comment section is working for you.

35. My IE session hung for about 5 minutes when I tried to bring up comments. Now it is chewing 15% of my CPU and 170Mb of memory. Maybe still some bugs to shake out?

    1. Thanks, I just made a note of that. We’ve been testing on IE but haven’t seen that yet. Investigation underway!

36. looks slick.. can i use it too? 🙂

37. I’ve been waiting for someone to make a nice, hosted comment system that could work on any site, regardless of the system, where it’s hosted, etc.Hopefully these guys have done it. Would love to try it with Feed.Us.

38. “field labels in fields which disappear when the field gets focus” is not as good as “field labels in fields which disappear when the field has text in it”.

39. Fred, What happens to your MyBlogLog community?

    1. Mo, we’re working on something that won’t lose people’s MyBlogLog avatars.

40. Can you get the top rated comments into my RSS reader? I rarely pop out to a blog to check the comments out and would like to see only the most relevant ones that contribute to the conversation in my aggregator as a part of the post.

41. This from one of the Tech Stars companies?

    1. There with YCombinator.

42. This is a test of an emerging comment system.

    1. threaded

43. It’s nice, but it should be more compressed in my opinion. Conversation view is great but paging on webpages shouldn’t be necessary

    1. Hey Gustaf, it’s turned on right now to test a few things. Pagination can be controlled by moderator(s). Thanks for the feedback.

44. Test comment. Hope you don’t mind.

45. check it!

46. Just testing!

47. hello

48. Am I commenting on Digg, Reddit, or Facebook? I can’t tell anymore!!! Ahhhhh!

49. very cool stuff (albeit very reminiscent of good ol fashioned bulletin boards and newsgroups)but i do miss being ble to preview my comment before actually posting

50. Without javascript on, I can neither see the form nor the comments. I prefer the old system where I didn’t have to turn on javascript

    1. furthermore, search engines won’t find the comments. On the paging, it’s really strange having the discussion split across multiple pages, I think I’d rather scroll

51. Nice, and easy to follow. Also like the click-in-box color….maybe add this feature to the Name,Email,Website fields as well. Just a thought.

52. Test

53. What’s so revolutionary about this? It’s a threaded blog. Slashdot has had that since 1998. Ohh…but now you can have your picture too.

54. This already looks like a better system for comments. I am not seeing any integration for other services that many bloggers already have accounts with such as mybloglog, but perhaps they will soon. The multi-level threading system makes things much easier to read too. I will be integrating this into my blog soon.

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57. This is a pretty slick piece of coding. I like it a lot and it looks like it goes nicely on high-volume posts.

58. Hi Fred, feel free to reply to this message.

    1. 🙂

    2. Testing this cool comment reply via email thingyIf this works disqus is my favorite web company of the day

59. This is just a test, please vote me up gang

60. Has some nice features, but I still found it a blur of “too long to read them all, can’t tell where the gems are”It’s tough with comments since they don’t stay relevant for too long and they rarely get enough mass of voting.

61. Yep, Tangler is here checking it out too. We’re not a commenting tool, but we’re all in this big space of Commtribution = community + contribution :-)Or maybe CommGen = Community Generated Services. Like Warcraft is a CommGen.Mick

62. Petit essai afin de voir si cela fonctionne bien :-)merci pour l’idée de ce système.

63. uyi

64. looks very nice. gratulations

65. cool .. next post please

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67. test

68. HI