Comments on: Commenting Systems Comparison: WordPress, Intense Debate, Disqus

By: Junaid

Junaid — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:02:12 +0000

Thanks for this comparison on Intense Debate vs Disqus commenting systems. We had tried Disqus and had problems with importing existing WP comments into Disqus. Plus, the integration and interface of Disqus with the Wordpress backend was less than ideal, as it used some kind of frames and the setup looked a bit messy. However, it does seem to be packed with alot of features.

Since this posting was made, Intense Debate seems to have covered the Facebook connect and Twitter login options too among others like OpenID.

By: Raj

Raj — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:44:04 +0000

I installed intense debate, but the way comments are showing up on firefox, they are not showing in internet explorer, its looking weird on ie.

u got any suggestions ??

By: Lomax

Lomax — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:30:14 +0000

It might be an idea to go into the spam filter aspects of these applications as well.

I’ve just installed disqus, and I notice that is has slowed everything down considerably…is this normal?

By: Damian Saunders

Damian Saunders — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:59:54 +0000

After a brief dalliance with Intense Debate left me feeling somewhat disinterested I moved to Disqus and I’m happy.
No doubt about it, it’s a hard decision, both platforms are very good.
The motivator to install something more than the standard Wordpress comment system for me, and I assume many others, was the desire to integrate and aggregate both my on site and off site comment activity.
The clincher for me was that Discus allows the editing of comments, and replies after I have submitted them, and Intense Debate does not – not without any messing about anyway.
I have to say I’m very happy with the Disqus interface and it’s working quite quickly on my site so far.

By: Mick

Mick — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:23:16 +0000

Hi guys,

Just to let you know i have the limited roll-out trial of Facebook Connect running on Intensedebate. Feel free to try it out - but write something Irish!

cheers,

Mick.

http://www.diaspora.ie/starship/

(PD: let me know if you run into any probs)

By: Kevin Eklund

Kevin Eklund — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:24:00 +0000

Disqus seems to have fixed the problem; blog is not hanging on comment system loading anymore Best way to get a hold of anyone is via Twitter nowadays.

By: ezg

ezg — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:56:07 +0000

ID isn't slow all the time. But sometimes it really gets slow. Then blog gets slow too.
But it's very good to know, that Disqus try to fix speed.

By: Kevin Eklund

Kevin Eklund — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:31:11 +0000

Now I know what you meant by Disqus being slow. It's super slow today and it it holding up the loading of by blog posts. I've contacted @Disqus on Twitter, hopefully they respond quickly or I'll have to shut Disqus down! BTW, I didn't experience this slowness with Intense Debate's comment system.

By: Kevin Eklund

Kevin Eklund — Sat, 30 May 2009 22:48:20 +0000

Nice, it looks like that would permit the user to easily sign in but would it sync profile stuff between previously created self-hosted WP blog profiles and all relevant off-site profiles (i.e. Disqus, Intense Debate)? Just wondering what else it would do besides allowing for easy sign in. Thanks for the heads-up, it's the first time I've heard of RPX

By: Tore

Tore — Sat, 30 May 2009 21:08:41 +0000

regarding your point on "As a blog owner, if I could integrate Facebook Connect, Twitter Sign In, OpenID, push comments to Twitter/Facebook, and off-site comment retrieval within the default WP comment system I’d use it instead of ID or Disqus." What if they had used RPX (http://rpxnow.com) for authentication which aggregates all the ones you mention above. RPX is already integrated into social networking platforms like KickApps.

By: Kevin Eklund

Kevin Eklund — Sat, 30 May 2009 14:18:33 +0000

I haven't experienced any slowness with Disqus and Intense Debate did a much better job of syncing comments compared to Disqus. I do feel that if Intense Debate were to put a priority on social features it would win out over Disqus. But unless they could allow WP plugins to work across the Intense Debate commenting system, I would still prefer to use the default comment system as it allows for total comment customization.

By: Kevin Eklund

Kevin Eklund — Sat, 30 May 2009 14:12:32 +0000

That's a really interesting question Jon. I'm afraid I don't know the answer to that one currently. All I know is that when I logged into the blog, Intense Debate recognized me and I was therefore automatically signed in. After installing the Intense Debate plugin, I had to add my Intense Debate login credentials for the plugin to connect the two accounts and claim my blog.

I would be surprised if Intense Debate could indeed synchronize the commenter's username and password. This would require you to somehow claim your numerous login credentials across all the blogs you comment on. Instead, I imagine they are using the commenter's username and/or email address to identify the user's profile like Gravatar does.

By: Jon Smajda

Jon Smajda — Sat, 30 May 2009 11:13:33 +0000

Did you play with Intense Debate's Profile Sync feature at all? If I were starting a new site today, I'd definitely use this, but here's my problem: a lot of our blogs have the “You must be logged in” setting like you used to have here. So on those blogs, the people who comment have all gone through the trouble of signing up for an account through our WP site. If I switched to ID, would those accounts become useless when viewing the ID comments? Or can they use those same credentials to login as an Intense Debate commenter? It seems like the Profile Sync feature should deal with this, but I can't tell for sure. Does that make sense?

By: ezg

ezg — Sat, 30 May 2009 07:40:54 +0000

I tried both systems too, but now using default comment system.
First off all I had problems with sync. ID lost some my comments and didn't gave it back, so I turned it off. I don't think, that my commenters like blog, which loses comments of them. I don't like to lose comments too.
Later I tried disqus. Didn't have much problems with it, but this system was too slow and not so good as intensedebate.
So know I'm using default system and it's the best for me.