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.
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- 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.
is this free?
Yep , its a free service
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.
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
Yeah !
Disqus is an exceptional comment management platform….
Different point of view from that post. Interesting to say the least.
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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 ?
Yes, I like it, and I find it much easier to administrate my comments .
DISCUS really great
Thanks a lot 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.
nice post, thanks for sharing
Correct, joining with Disqus would have many advantages instead of using other comments tools.
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
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Disqus allows you to administer comments on multiple blogs from a single dashboard.Disqus is great commenting plug-in..
I have been blogging for more than three years now and there have been a lot of things that have evolved. One new area is the advancement in blog comment systems.
The profiles that commenter create in DISQUS are shared across other blogs using the system. So commenter will be recognized by DISQUS without having to create whole new profile and they”ll have the same avatar and identity.
I have been testing it Disqus out for an hour or so and I will be implementing it on my own blog. I really like the voting system and the community around it.
Yep , DISQUS is a great commenting system and I really likes the part where it shows the Tweets etc
Disqus has always been my favorite commenting system. The speed of it always amazes me.Disqus is under active development.it is a listen to user feedback.
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..
Disqus now brings us the ability to comment using your Twitter account. You don’t have to give up your actual Twitter credentials since Disqus takes advantage of Twitter’s support…
This is great news and I believe this will be the trend in the future with support for more and more social media sites
It will be nice to put comment form at the bottom, I like reading comments in your blog, lot of interesting people can be found here, but I need to scroll up if want to comment (
Thanks for the feedback , Very often people comment on the content of the post so that is the reason I have the comment box just after the post
Simply superb tool. easy to understand whether link gets in or out. especially edit option is nice one.
Most of bloggers who know about disqus really love it. I am also gonna try this on one of my new blog. But spam is the only problem with disqus i guess.
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We are commenting about a comment box…
Eiter way, thanks
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Disqus is the best commenting program because it lets you do a lot of stuff.
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