Comments on: Comment Wars Meme: Why Intense Debate is superior to Disqus

By: TheGeek

TheGeek — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:36:08 +0000

I'm probably late to the party on this post but I'll throw my $0.02 worth in anyway since I'm here

I migrated a 3 year old Drupal powered website over to WordPress over the Xmas break and set about improving the user experience. One of the areas was certainly around interactivity on the site and comments plays a big part there. I chose ID and installed it only a week ago and the main factor was comment threading, the ability to keep my comments and the multiple avenues users are able to use to make a comment. Beats the standard WP commenting system hands down.

Thanks for the informative post too – confirms I made the right choice

By: db0

db0 — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:40:04 +0000

Intense Debate links to your blog, not their website. They used to do that but they have changed it since. Bullet point 1 means that they link to your own comments, not their website.

By: santhosh

santhosh — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 07:19:48 +0000

Sorry quick follow up to validate my concern/position. I just clicked the “Why?” next to “Sign up for IntenseDebate” beneath the comment form and two of the bullets are illogical, “Market yourself by providing links to your facebook, twitter, and other accounts” “Gain readership to your blog or website” Why would I want to do this by sending your readers, readers who are curious about me, to Intense Debate and not my blog? How does that net me more readership while promoting my profiles BETTER than my own blog?

Thanks, sorry to sound critical of them, I’m really not, I just haven’t figured out the benefits in this regard and believe they are taking advantage of blogs to create their own social networks.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 04:46:49 +0000

Haha comment wars are great….

By: areapal

areapal — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:09:55 +0000

how ever bro but i like disqus its useful for my website

By: James Howard Young

James Howard Young — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:27:05 +0000

Thanks for the reply, I've dropped ID for now, but am using your excellent backlinks with WordPress pingbacks disabled. Thanks for a great plugin.

By: vinay24k

vinay24k — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:41:45 +0000

Iam using Intense Debate for my Blogger Blog from a Couple of Months…Its Rocks !

By: Mick

Mick — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:03:08 +0000

Hi Db0,

Just a quick one – Facebook Connect running on Intensedebate here:
http://diaspora.ie/starship/2009/06/intensedebate…

It's Intensedebates limited roll-out trial so feel free to try it / leave a message.

Slainte!

Mick

By: Bloggers 2009

Bloggers 2009 — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:44:32 +0000

I dont know in the IDC but in the disqus it has…

By: Nate V

Nate V — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:29:05 +0000

Anyone know if Disqus or IDC has a word counter option for commenters?