New and Improved Disqus Handles My Concerns

August 12, 2008

disqus-newlogo Back in May, I posted my opinion of Disqus and stated quite clearly that I thought it was a stupid move. The main reason for that was that your comments were now stored somewhere else and gave you no search engine love. Several bloggers told me I was being myopic (more or less), but then my point was made even more clear when the Disqus site went offline for a few hours in June.

Since then, I elected to switch this blog to Disqus, but have still not made the move for my larger site because of my concerns.

Today, Disqus has thrown everybody a very big bone. The new, 2.0 version of the plug-in does a number of important things:

  • Makes comments indexable by search engines
  • Allows export and import of comments
  • Automatically syncs your Disqus comments with your Wordpress database so that you can revert back to WP comments at any time and not lose anything
  • Administer your comments from inside WP

I’m going to need to upgrade, because it looks like this update addresses every one of my concerns.

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  • Looks a lot like wordpress, Which I guess is a good thing since that has become the gold standard in blogging.
  • David -
    I know this is an old post, but thought I'd jump on it anyway . . . Did you ever move your larger site over to Disqus? Also, would you happen to know whether when a comment is moderated on Disqus, the wordpress version is also moderated in your DB? I ask only because it would be unfortunate to move to Disqus, use it for a while (moderating spam and garbage posts along the way), and remove it, only to have to re-moderate all those comments all over again.

    Thoughts?
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