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by Randy on August 13, 2008 · Comments

Well, Disqus was pretty cool before but I decided to not use it because they had some issues and I didn’t fully understand what they are doing with the comments. I went back to using them today because they can sync all my comments with their servers and my admin interface. LOVE that. Plus, I have literally deactivated 10 plugins so far because they are features incorporated into Disqus. Another benefit is that it empowers *you* as a commenter to own your comments and incorporate your social networks in some really neat ways.

Right now I am having some importing issues but I don’t have any doubt it will be resolved soon. Until then the old commenting system will be in effect for the older posts. Actually, they aren’t playing nice (old and new) so it will be the new system until the import is fixed. This is starting to annoy me again.

UPDATE: YaY Disqus! The import somehow magically finished earlier this morning and all comments are now showing again on the blog. Thank you!

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Randy 08/13/2008 06:37 PM 1 point
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testing reinstallation of disquis

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B.T.Carolus 08/13/2008 07:41 PM 1 point
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Can you make it so I can edit? Please? ::::looks up pleadingly through eyelashes::::

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Randy 08/13/2008 07:46 PM 1 point
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Pretty girls batting their eyelashes can get me to do just about anything ... but I don't know how to do that. The old plugins don't work on the new system. I don't know where but it seems to me that Disqus should allow you to edit them somehow (maybe on your disqus user profile ... maybe?) but I can't find it right now.

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B.T.Carolus 08/13/2008 07:56 PM 1 point
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Well, I'll have to play around with that. Based on a preliminary check, the old Explorer v. Firefox issue that was bothering me before has been resolved. I don't actually use explorer anymore, but I thought you'd like to know.

And I think that I will be okay with using Disqus now (their name still bugs, though; grrr).

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Randy 08/13/2008 07:59 PM 1 point
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Great. Good to know about the browsers and good that you ditched explorer. I haven't used it in years.

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B.T.Carolus 08/13/2008 08:06 PM 1 point
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poor microsoft...nobody likes them. Anyway, I'm sitting through a fabulous lecture on Cathedral construction from my favorite professor (whose partner majorly needs to give him art lessons...ah well, I still love him), so I'll leave you for now.

btw, you spelled disqus wrong in this post's title.

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Randy 08/13/2008 08:09 PM 1 point
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have fun in class. Thanks for the editing catch.

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B.T.Carolus 08/14/2008 03:37 PM 1 point
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Ok, I'm checking one of the other problems that was bugging me on the old Disqus, and seeing that it is resolved. YAY, Disqus!

It was, if you're wondering, that the reply field hid itself behind the sidebar and so I couldn't read half of every line I wrote. The other problem that I had was that once I wrote more than would fit into the reply field, I could't scroll around, so I had to hope that I didn't need to edit anything. But I can scroll now. YAY again!

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Randy 08/14/2008 03:49 PM 1 point
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YAY indeed :)

It also stores all the comments on their system AND my own database. I should never lose them that way :).

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B.T.Carolus 08/13/2008 07:40 PM 2 points
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Randy Thomas....you are the most mind-changing-est person in the world! I will hold off on killing you, though.

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Randy 08/13/2008 07:41 PM 1 point
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It's a good thing I am not running for President huh?

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B.T.Carolus 08/13/2008 07:42 PM 1 point
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Yes, you flip-flopper.

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B.T.Carolus 08/13/2008 07:45 PM 1 point
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OK, you're comment feed is really funny right now. There are comments from months ago, and comments from today.

The whole flip-flopping things is sorta cute though...if you don't do it too much :-)

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Randy 08/13/2008 07:47 PM 1 point
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I know, the import thing cut off about a third of the way through the import and I can't get it to finish :). That's the ongoing issue that I have reported to Disqus.

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B.T.Carolus 09/11/2008 03:10 AM 1 point
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All right. First: COMMENT EDITING IS BACK!!! YaY!!! Woot!!! YaY!!!! (I am an English major. You do the math :)

Second. I just switched to Google's new Chrome browser to try it out (I am feeling like a highly adventurous, tech savvy English major, now) and I have concluded, once and for all, that the previous issues that I had with Disqus were completely browser related. This is because the Disqus comments look different in Firefox, IE 6 (we're up to 6, right?), and Chrome. So anybody in the future who has problems with the Disqus system should first viewing the blog in another browser, if they want the problem fixed.

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Randy 09/11/2008 08:52 AM 1 point
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I was wondering when you were going to comment on the editing being back.

IE is up to 7 something. I am on a Mac so I don't have Chrome. Is it not working right in Chrome?

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B.T.Carolus 09/11/2008 12:10 PM 1 point
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No, it's working right. It just looks different because the fonts come through in bold. Not like illegible, screaming bold, just darker. I actually like it better in Chrome. So far the only thing that bugs me about Chrome is that I can use my touch pad to scroll down, but if I want to scroll up I have to grab the bar w/ my mouse. But that's just a habit I have to change.

I was using firefox which is something of a combo between IE and Safari, and Chrome seems pretty different from those three. I'm tentatively sold.

ETA: You know I just love my editing ;)

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Randy 09/12/2008 12:52 AM 1 point
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Yes, you and your editing. That another character attribute that should be put in the plus column.

I look forward to trying out Chrome once they release it for Mac.

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B.T.Carolus 09/11/2008 11:28 PM 1 point
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Another thing, did you disable the comment rating function?

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Randy 09/12/2008 12:50 AM 1 point
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Yup... a long time ago. No one was using it and I thought it was ugly. :)

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B.T.Carolus 09/12/2008 01:02 AM 1 point
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