ok, so looking at whatleydude.com (and remembering that it is a hosted Wordpress.org site) you could swap to Disqus kind of easily.
Not sure of the benefits to you as site admin over the default WP comment engine, but to me as a commenter, like the idea that there is a single place that people can go and see how great my comments are across all of the various sites.
It was actually wanting to post a comment MIR that caused to sign up to Disqus, but as i found more and more sites using it, it grew on me.
does not sound silly to me. I remember when you launched whatleydude.com, and how excited you were about the look of it.
My suggestion would be to try it and see if you can get an effect something similar to MIR (or if @vero /@pepsmedia can make it look similar).
Because, from where i sit, the look and feel of comments on MIR & whatleydude.com are not THAT different visually. The main difference being that Disqus seems to have the "add new comment" box at the top (ie between post and comments) and WP has the box at the bottom. But the colours on MIR have been made to match up, so that it is not a giant dis-connect.
the threading thing is nice (and as you know from Jaiku, threads help to make community), but only you can say if that is worth "breaking" mobile compatability (as @dsample points out).
just saw @constatine 's comment and it reminded me of the 1-9-90 idea, you know, that in a given online community, for every one person that creates content, nine people will comment or add to it, and ninety will just view/consume it ( damm , i wish i could find a good link for that quote/idea)
and you want the barrier to particiapation be as low as possible.
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8 months ago by whatleydude
ahh, thats better :)
ok, so looking at whatleydude.com (and remembering that it is a hosted Wordpress.org site) you could swap to Disqus kind of easily.
Not sure of the benefits to you as site admin over the default WP comment engine, but to me as a commenter, like the idea that there is a single place that people can go and see how great my comments are across all of the various sites.
It was actually wanting to post a comment MIR that caused to sign up to Disqus, but as i found more and more sites using it, it grew on me.
and as @constatine pointed out the FaceBook connect integration helps.
8 months ago by ymb
See I was tempted to go down the disqus route - I'm just not sure how it would look in regards to the overall feel of my site...
Sounds silly, but I care about that kind of thing.
8 months ago by whatleydude
does not sound silly to me. I remember when you launched whatleydude.com, and how excited you were about the look of it.
My suggestion would be to try it and see if you can get an effect something similar to MIR (or if @vero /@pepsmedia can make it look similar).
Because, from where i sit, the look and feel of comments on MIR & whatleydude.com are not THAT different visually. The main difference being that Disqus seems to have the "add new comment" box at the top (ie between post and comments) and WP has the box at the bottom. But the colours on MIR have been made to match up, so that it is not a giant dis-connect.
the threading thing is nice (and as you know from Jaiku, threads help to make community), but only you can say if that is worth "breaking" mobile compatability (as @dsample points out).
8 months ago by ymb
Re: Mobile.. I might have a solution for that.
8 months ago by whatleydude
Scratch that. No solution.
8 months ago by whatleydude
just saw @constatine 's comment and it reminded me of the 1-9-90 idea, you know, that in a given online community, for every one person that creates content, nine people will comment or add to it, and ninety will just view/consume it ( damm , i wish i could find a good link for that quote/idea)
and you want the barrier to particiapation be as low as possible.
8 months ago by ymb