I recently added Disqus commenting to my site. Having a service manage my comments has a lot of benefits:
Functionality – Seesmic integration is pretty cool, not like I’m expecting any video comments but it’s going be be cool when that first one is made.
Ownership – not only should I own the comments on this site but the commenter should too. I’ve always liked the idea of a service that collects your comments (I had the idea well before CoComment
) and since Disqus is taking off it’s seems appropriate to allow my commenters to take their comments with them.
The list of ancillary features stack up, especially for the commenter.
How I’ve enbled it here at Scattered:
I’ve only enabled it for new posts and existing posts without comments, so I haven’t started over…even though I would prefer starting over.
Without Disqus allowing for importing of historical comments I’m not about to throw out years of comments. It already allows for you to export all of your site’s comments and knowing that allowed me make the move over the weekend when I enabled the service.
There are somethings I’d like to see:
FriendFeed integration. I’d love to see comments made from friendfeed show up on site’s using Disqus.
Twitter Integration. Not sure how this would work or what purpose it would serve but people like to comment on posts with Twitter and it should be shown on the post page.
Importing. Allow us to import our comments, finally. There are a few older posts I have that really need Disqus’s threading and voting features.
