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DISQUS – easily manage your comments

Posted 20th May 2009 | Comments

DISQUS is an comment management system for your blog that makes very easy to manage your comments while providing more exposure for your comments and blog. After doing some search and checking out some blog posts about blog commenting I decided to go with DISQUS, because it provides all the functionality I needed to manage my blog comments. There are Wordpress plug-ins out there that offers some features of DISQUS but to achieve all the functionality provided by DISQUS you need to add few plug-ins. Although not relevant to this blog another big advantage of DISQUS is that it can be integrated into Wordpress blogs as well , if the blog owner haven't changes the necessary setting commenting on blogspot blogs can becomes cumbersome so for blogspot blog owners this could be a very handy system to have. Lets take a look at some features that made me choose DISQUS as my comment management system.

Advantage for web masters

  • Threaded comments with a reply button - If you have being visiting this blog for a while you must have noticed I reply to comments using @Ann etc , this makes it hard to follow the conversation especially if there were few comments between the original comment. With DISQUS you can use the reply button at the end of the comment and you reply will show as a thread under the comment making it much more meaningful and much more easier to follow the conversation.
  • Reply to comments from the Dashboard - You don't need to visit the website or the post to reply to the comment , you can do it by clicking the add reply link in the DISQUS section in your Wordpress dashboard.
  • Ability to comment using Twitter Id, Facebook Id - If you are promoting your blog posts via Twitter and Facebook ( You really should do this :) ) then DISQUS allows them to comment using there Twitter id and Facebook Id. This gives there profiles more exposure making them more likely to make a comment.
  • Ability to display social media reaction to your blog post - You can display the reaction your post got on Twitter , FriendFeed and lots of other services.

Above are the reasons I choose DISQUS as my comment management system. But there are many advantages for being a DISQUS member , especially if you are commenting a lot on DISQUS enabled blogs. In a future post I will show advantages normal visitors can get by joining DISQUS.

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Post Title: DISQUS – easily manage your comments
Author: Nishadha
Posted: 20th May 2009
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  • One of the main advantages Disqus for me is; it has is the ability for users to login with Facebook Connect where the comments also appear in the commentators newsfeed, which has the capacity to go viral.
  • Very good point Hostelio , another reason to use DISQUS I guess
  • Correct, joining with Disqus would have many advantages instead of using other comments tools.
  • Nice post. Im actually thinking about putting disqus on my own blog
  • nice post, thanks for sharing
  • I had try Intense Debate before, and I doesn't like it very much, may be I will try to use Disqus,I'd like to replace my current setup with something much simpler,and guests post simpler too.
  • I have heard good things about Intense Debate too , but since DISQUS works fine I didn't want to change it. With DISQUS unregistered users also can comment without a problem so you wouldn't have to worry about that.
  • Nishadha,thanks for you tips.yes, i will give up the Intense Debate and install DisQus.
  • kongrit
    Thanks a lot for sharing
  • DISCUS really great
  • Disqus is Great! Currently there are some "comment plugins" which can let a page have function of comment.The best one I know is Disqus With greater control and commenter profiles. this plugins is really cool, I love it. Thanks for Sharing..
  • Janice
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  • I am already using Twitter Snipe but have heard good things about Humming Bird , might give it a try , does it have a trial option or something like with Twitter Snipe ?
  • Yeah !
    DISQUS allows the blogger to have greater control with comments. It's one of hte useful tools that any blogger can have.
  • Interesting post. I have stumbled and twittered this for my friends. Hope others find it as interesting as I did.
  • Thanks for the stumble , hope your followers like it too :)
  • Different point of view from that post. Interesting to say the least.
  • Yeah !
    Disqus is an exceptional comment management platform....
  • Nice review. I have seen this first in WP Greet Box authors website.

    Let me give it a try.

    Thanks.
  • You are welcome , even if you don't add it to your blog there are benefits of joining DISQUS just as a commentator , I will do a future post about that :)
  • I have about this before but never try it. Maybe I'll try later. By the way, it won't make your blog loading slow right? =)
  • I haven't tested the timing or anything like that so I cant say for sure , I haven't noticed any slowdown like that in this blog , but since it adds some additional information there must be at least a tiny effect on the load time. As with most Wordpress plug ins you have to decide between the usefulness and the load time and I think in the long run this will benefit my blog as a whole.
  • is this free?
  • Yep , its a free service :)
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