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A brief note about comments

28/10/2011

hey everyone,

you may have noticed that Delimiter has reverted to the usual WordPress comments system overnight. The reasons are pretty simple: While the Disqus system offers advanced functionality over WordPress’ native comments system, it has suffered a series of outages, errors, slowdowns and other problems recently that have led to great frustration for me in using it on Delimiter.

Last night, I attempted to install the IntenseDebate comments platform as a replacement. It’s a great system, and it installed fine on Delimiter Marketplace. However, perhaps due to the volume of comments on Delimiter itself (in excess of 33,000), after nine hours of migration time, IntenseDebate had not been able to sync our current comments with it. I will contact IntenseDebate and see if they have a resolution for this.

What this means is that for now, we’re back to the old WordPress comments system. I know this is annoying, and I myself vastly prefer the more modern options, but right now those options are buggy. My apologies.

Kind regards,

Renai
Editor + Publisher, Delimiter

13 COMMENTS

toshP300 28/10/2011 At 9:55 am

whaaaaaaaaattt?….. just when i got used to Disqus fonts, style, format and all…. you do a bait & switch…

*shakes fist at Ubermind*
- Renai LeMay 28/10/2011 At 9:57 am
  
  I know … I am as annoyed as you :(
  
  I *really* want to migrate to IntenseDebate, as its featureset and design is just so much better than Disqus right now — they’ve done a lot of work on it recently. But a nine hour outage of our comments system is more than I am prepared to handle. It should simply not take that long.
  - toshP300 28/10/2011 At 10:02 am
    
    one major drawback of Disqus is that you can’t permalink comments. i hope intensedebate has that feature.
    - Renai LeMay 28/10/2011 At 10:06 am
      
      You can see IntenseDebate working here:
      
      http://demarket.com.au/2011/10/whats-the-best-australian-iphone-4s-deal/
      
      I can’t see a way to do permalinks, but there must be one.
      - Nick 28/10/2011 At 11:17 am
        
        You can grab the permalink by clicking on the timestamp next to the commenter’s name.
        
        e.g. http://demarket.com.au/2011/10/whats-the-best-australian-iphone-4s-deal/#IDComment212993527
looktall 28/10/2011 At 10:51 am

the thing i liked most about disqus was that i could use my google account to log in to it.
i didn’t have to create a new account.

i notice the new system allows logging in using my facebook credentials but i really don’t want to use that.
- Renai LeMay 28/10/2011 At 10:59 am
  
  You can log in to IntenseDebate via heaps of different methods — not just Facebook. But it’s not implemented yet, anyway ;)
Hubert Cumberdale 28/10/2011 At 1:31 pm

I’m sure IntenseDebate is better than Disqus (you can permalink comments on Disqus btw) however I’m noticing more “The server at delimiter.com.au is taking too long to respond.” messages with the usual WordPress commenting.
- Renai LeMay 28/10/2011 At 1:56 pm
  
  Really? I haven’t had any errors with respect to that today. Our web server hosting at ireckon has been rock solid for months now.
  - Hubert Cumberdale 28/10/2011 At 3:52 pm
    
    Not sure what the problem is. Somewhere between the ISP and your web server I’m guessing :-(
Leefe 28/10/2011 At 6:43 pm

Explains why I thought you had turned off comments on some posts recently. ’twas just Disqus star gazing rather than responding.
- Renai LeMay 28/10/2011 At 7:47 pm
  
  Yeah this was one of the main problems. Sometimes Disqus would just … not work, inexplicably.
alain 29/10/2011 At 11:18 am

I noticed Disqus was flaky on the iPad as well, sometimes you would see the comments sometimes you didn’t, most times I switched to the Desktop version to see everything.

WordPress seems to be ok on iPad.

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