Comments on: Help me out re: Disqus

By: Mesotheliomapatient

Mesotheliomapatient — Mon, 04 May 2009 11:34:00 +0000

Yeah !
I’m too curious about track backs with the new commenting system …….

By: Leeclip

Leeclip — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:23:00 +0000

I installed disqus too, great service!

By: Ewan

Ewan — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:03 +0000

temporarily yeah. They are working on it at Disqus.

By: Ben Smith

Ben Smith — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:32:16 +0000

Ewan,

Have we lost trackbacks with the new commenting system?

B.

By: Ewan @ MIR

Ewan @ MIR — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:00:03 +0000

temporarily yeah. They are working on it at Disqus.

By: Ben Smith

Ben Smith — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:32:16 +0000

Ewan,

Have we lost trackbacks with the new commenting system?

B.

By: smstextnews

smstextnews — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:00:03 +0000

temporarily yeah. They are working on it at Disqus.

By: Ben Smith

Ben Smith — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:32:16 +0000

Ewan,

Have we lost trackbacks with the new commenting system?

B.

By: Ben Smith

Ben Smith — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:04:41 +0000

Both have been updating all day for me (and since the change). Are you sure you're using the _new_ Disqus comments feed?

By: cyclist

cyclist — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:38:22 +0000

If you mean a combined feed for news and comments, no there wasn't a combined one, but there was a full feed for each.
The feedburner urls you list stopped updating. The news one has resumed today, the comments one is still not getting any thing new.

By: Ben Smith

Ben Smith — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:24:11 +0000

Was there ever a combined feed for both?

The normal full feed RSS is here: http://feeds.feedburner.com/smstextnews/ and the comments feed is listed above (also full AFAICT).

By: cyclist

cyclist — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:21:12 +0000

The new RSS feeds provide a different service. The old feeds for both news and comments provided the full text and pictures for each item, on both mobile and PC versions. The new feeds are text only, and stop after the first few lines, with the need to connect to the web page to get the full item.
This requires a lot more effort to read the items, and stops me from reading offline on my mobile.
Not good, not good at all.

By: Ben Smith

Ben Smith — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:04:39 +0000

Look here: http://smstextnews.disqus.com/

New comment RSS: http://smstextnews.disqus.com/c/10728/comments.rss

By: James Whatley

James Whatley — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:17:52 +0000

Agree with @cyclist.

Miss the feed and I miss the mobile stuff too

By: smstextnews

smstextnews — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:09:04 +0000

Let me look into this Cyclist. Initially this was just a trial but the more
that readers are really liking it, the more I am integrating it into the
site.

By: cyclist

cyclist — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:11:55 +0000

Big problem for me is that the RSS feed for comments has stopped working. Is there a new url for them? If not, then it seriously messes up use of the site.

By: JebBrilliant

JebBrilliant — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:15:47 +0000

So far so good Ewan.

By: Ben Smith

Ben Smith — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:14:53 +0000

Loving it. Getting the old comments imported would be good too.

By: smstextnews

smstextnews — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:10:03 +0000

This is good feedback! Keep it coming!

By: TerenceEden

TerenceEden — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:39:02 +0000

I like it. I use the mobile version of the site most often, so it would be nice to have a mobile friendly comments form.

Loving the threading and the easy links to people's profiles.

The emails aren't encoded properly and some of my mail clients show HTML codes rather than characters.

Other than that - all good.

By: Ricky Chotai

Ricky Chotai — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:31:11 +0000

Cool thanks for the reply!

By: Daniel Ha

Daniel Ha — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:16:40 +0000

We are working on extending the notifications.

If you have any problems with Disqus, let us know. I'll keep an eye on this thread.

By: MarkW

MarkW — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:40:56 +0000

Okay, now I'm posting again cos I just registered with Disqus and want to see what the difference is…

OOh – edit – because now having registered my second post has appeared before my first (unregistered) one has yet to be approved. Sorry for using your site to play around on Ewan! But I suppose you asked for it!!!

By: MarkW

MarkW — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:37:04 +0000

I was a bit taken aback when I first saw it, but it doesn't seem to make the commenting process any more unwieldy. Ask us again when we've had a bit longer with it to see if any niggles come out in the wash… Otherwise, so far, so good I'd say.

By: Ricky Chotai

Ricky Chotai — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:01:41 +0000

Personally I am liking it a lot, however one option that i feel is *missing* is the ability to get email updates if someone does not directly reply to my post! Maybe a feature you could suggest to them, however the clear advantage is able to post in real time if you are a registered user!