It’s Time for an Intense Debate

by Samuel Febres

For a few weeks I’ve been using Disqus to host the comments on my blog and for the most part I’ve liked it. There were a few changes to how the comments looked (I no longer had my matrix gravatar for folks that didn’t have their own gravatar) and some other smaller tweaks, but it seemed fine. I had a few issues setting it up mostly because of how I leave comments on here and how I leave comments on other sites. Anyway… I was enjoying disqus just fine but had also looked at another commenting system called Intense Debate that I was interested in trying out as well. It turns out that Automattic, the company behind wordpress.com/org, decided to aquire Intense Debate, and some of those features will soon enough be making their way into WordPress blogs in future updates.

I thought, why not go ahead and get a headstart on the future, right? Blog comments are now hosted with Intense Debate. It’s time to start leaving many comments and help me see how this thing works. One personal favorite I like right now about Intense Debate is the check-mark box that lets you tweet your comment. Well, isn’t that a nice touch?

For the few of you that have left comments while I was hosting them with disqus, was there anything you liked or disliked about it? Did you feel more inclined to leave a comment or discouraged with the new commenting system? Feel free to add any other thoughts you have below. Also, let me know what you think about Intense Debate.

Here’s to expirimenting and the future.
Oh, btw, if you host your blog on something other than wordpress, such as blogger, tumblr, typepad, etc, both Disqus and Intense Debate work and will continue to work for those platforms, so improve your blog’s commenting system and check out either one of these two commenting systems… please (especially blogger folks and tumblr folks).

(sidenote: Due to the Automattic aquisition, Intense Debate is now in a closed beta so you’ll need to sign up for an invite code. Head on over there and sign up if interested and check out some of the features they offer. Check out my Intense Debate Profile.)