Hello Disqus, Goodbye Comments
Disqus, the oh-so-awesome comment management system that I use on all of my other blogs, can now be found on SiMo! Woo hoo! SiMo readers will now see much more organized comments beneath each post. What you won’t see however, is the thousands of comments that had been present on SiMo posts. Sorry guys - unfortunately Disqus doesn’t currently support importing old comments. If there’s something in particular you were looking for, just shoot me an email and I’ll see what I can do to dig it up for you.
If you’re not already registered with Disqus, I highly recommend you do so. Rather than just seeing a string of sequential comments, Disqus provides a tree-like structure allowing you to reply to individual comments so that various conversations can take place in an organized manner. If you are a registered Disqus member, you will receive email notifications whenever someone replies to one of your comments. What’s more, you can simply reply to the email with your response and it will be posted here on SiMo in the appropriate place. Sweet!
As a new feature that was just added, Disqus now supports video commenting as well thanks to Seesmic. This means that you can add video responses that will be posted in line if you so choose. I can’t say I’m a huge fan of the concept, but it’s there if you want it.
So give it a whirl and if you have your own blog, I highly recommend that you consider using Disqus to manage your comments.
