DISQUS, qool qommenting for blogs
DISQUS adds qontinuity where it was much missing.
Go check out Scripting News where Winer is testing it out.
DISQUS adds nice commenting capabilities to blogs. Works with WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, and MovableType. Allows:
- readers to rate comments
- comments to be sorted by rating
- a comment to be specifically designated a reply to another comment
- comments to be threaded (a consequence of the last bullet)
- an RSS feed to be made just for one blog post and its comment stream, so that if it goes long you can easily keep following it (remember the incredibly long series of comments on O’Reily’s Blogger Code proposal? Or Kathy Sierra’s farewell? Each would’ve been better threaded and with its very own feed.)
- the thread to be subscribed to by email instead of RSS, for those who prefer
- a DISQUS user’s comments, no matter on how many blogs, to be aggregated in a single RSS feed. I.E. you can subscribe to my comment feed to read everything I say, all over the blogosphere.
- API access to the DISQUS back end.
I’m sure there are other goodies there I haven’t gotten to yet.
Whatever else I learn about it, I’m having a blast just commenting scripting.com. Winer’s been a hero of mine for years, but commenting his blog has been a pain. Now that it’s easy, and in the expectation it’ll be temporary, I’m cuttin’ loose, commenting every post he puts up.
I’ll try to get DISQUS working here tomorrow. No promises. I have a video to edit, an audio comment to record for FIR, and four blog posts queued up.