Dappered to soon switch to Disqus Comment System
Update: The switch is complete. Let us know what you think!
Joe: I honestly thought it was pronounced DIS-kess. Like one of these things. (And please, never use an orange cone as a substitute). Turns out it’s actually pronounced the same as the word “discuss.” Which is appropriate since it’s a commenting tool, which we are switching over to in the not too distant future.
There’s a bunch of advantages to switching to Disqus for comments, but like my pronunciation intuition, it’s not perfect. One thing I do know for certain, is that I truly appreciate how active everyone has been in leaving comments. All the extra suggestions, opinions, votes, etc … It’s a huge part of the site. And you guys all do it with an unheard of level of civility.
Read the comments section under any story on a news website and you’d be hard pressed not to come to the conclusion that civilization has one foot in the grave. People will write things behind their anonymous screen name that if they said the same to someone’s face in a bar… they’d rightfully get punched in the mouth. That doesn’t happen here. You guys really get it. You get that writing a comment on a website should be like you’re speaking to someone in person. And for that you have my genuine thanks. I look forward to the continued discourse that you guys bring to the site. Disqus will hopefully make it even better.
Dappered.com will be far from the first site to use Disqus. It’s already used by a bunch of great sites including: Mashable, TechCrunch, and CNN. We hope you like it.
Here’s what to expect:
Paul: Disqus is commenting tool that provides a number of great features. My three favorites:
- The ability to comment using your Twitter or Facebook ID
- Being able to instantly tweet / share a comment
- Allowing users to subscribe to a comment thread and receive emails when somebody replies to one of your comments
But the best feature is probably one you’ll never see: better spam moderation. We literally receive thousands of spam comments per day. It’s a pain to wade through all of them.
While we transition, old comments will be temporarily unavailable while we import them into the new system. To post a comment after the switch, you can comment anonymously, create a Disqus account, or sign in using your Facebook or Twitter account.
As always, leave us a comment to let us know what you think.
Joe, if it makes things easier for you, I’m all for it.
Sounds good to me! And I had to laugh at the one foot in the grave comment. Too true. The things that some people say… it’s unbelievable.
Keep it up guys!
Cheers
Ben
is there a bio to the site moderator/creator “Joe”? I’m curious to know who is behind this website.
@Jason, Joe is a pretty down-to-earth guy his only fault is his wish that mullets would make a comeback.
@Bar None: LIES! It’s the Rat Tail. Thanks Bar None. Anyway, Jason… I’m too boring. And besides, it’s not really about me, it’s more about you guys. Which I like. A lot.
@Butch: Thanks! Shouldn’t be too much of an issue after the first day or so. I think. Maybe. 🙂
Haha that’s a truly hideous picture Joe!
Cheers,
Ben
Sounds great! I hope it makes the site flourish.
If you install spam blockers, how are we going to find out about the semiannual 50% off sales on Kenneth Cole penis enlargement? (“Not as squared off as some of Kenneth Cole’s other penis offerings…”)
@Yakov: Bravo…
Not a huge fan of the Disqus commenting engine, but I’ll put up with it. Just for you, Joe 😉 One thing that certainly will be a welcome addition is the subscription comment replies. That’s one thing I’ve felt has been missing for a looongg time on Dappered (though comment RSS feed helps a little).
Joe have you ever thought of creating a Dappered message board/forum?
The home page no longer shows comment counts. Also, I liked chronological order better.
I guess I’ll give it a shot. I have to admit that I’m one that has been leery about this change in the comments system (privacy concerns) but if you truly have been getting that much spam, I surely understand your need for a better system.
I like the threaded comments, but could we possibly have them default to “Oldest first” so it is more like the old system? I like reading chronologically and currently I’ll need to scroll to the bottom first then read upwards. I can’t imagine I’m the only one who reads this way.
Actually, looks like if you set it yourself to Oldest first it seems to save your setting as a cookie. Subsequent page views continue to order by oldest first.
I just flipped it around…
One nice thing is that it’s a bit MORE private. You can validate your identity using Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, or OpenID — you don’t have to share your email anymore to comment.
I’m surprised Disqus doesn’t support using your Google Acount.
Mike, it does, but it is kind of obscure. All google accounts have a built in openid/oauth ability, but it isn’t made very apparent unless you go looking for it.
First go to http://google.com/profiles/me. If you are logged into your google account this will redirect to some longer url with a big number at the end, i.e. http://www.google.com/profiles/######################. Copy that url to your clipboard.
Next, at the top of the comments highlight Disqus and go to Log In. In the popup, click the bottom option “OpenID”. In the top box, paste the url you copied earlier. In the bottom use whatever you want your name to be. Click OK and a popup window show show up asking you if you want to use your google account to login. Click yes and you should be good to go.
Is there any way I can set comments so they appear not threaded but chronologically? Threaded is a real pain in the butt, since you don’t know where the new comments are and you have to scroll up and down to see if you can find em and it all just takes about 2-3 times as long. Thanks!