52 comments in the past 7 hours! I guess the way to get a lot of comments is to try a new comments system.
Michael Cullina
· 2 years ago
Fred, when I saw you at the Facebook hackathon I mentioned how much I liked your North Country Girl set last winter. Today Pandora played me a Jimmy Buffett, Live at Fenway, version of Southern Cross, a wonderful, soulful song. That sent me to Youtube where I found a CSN "coffee house" version from early days, the Live Aid version, and a 2006 reunion version. The musical quality of all the YouTube tracks was very poor, but the song remains poignant and beautiful. I was at Live Aid in 85, so memories return.
Michael Cullina
· 2 years ago
My view is that, in a comment thread on comments it is impossible to be off topic.
Mike
· 2 years ago
Well, I just went back to YouTube and listened to Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan doing North Country Girl in 1969....then, a new discovery; from the "related" box on the YouTube page. Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson doing Pancho and Lefty. Very wonderful.
Gustaf Altromer
· 2 years ago
It's nice, but it should be more compressed in my opinion. Conversation view is great but paging on webpages shouldn't be necessary
Daniel Ha
· 2 years ago
Hey Gustaf, it's turned on right now to test a few things. Pagination can be controlled by moderator(s). Thanks for the feedback.
dpnova
· 2 years ago
+1 vote from me, looking good.
TP McKenna
· 2 years ago
it is smarter
Garth Walker
· 2 years ago
Oh, the highlighting parent-child thing is awesome when you mouse over a child name/photo.
Garth Walker
· 2 years ago
I don't like that it sent me to their website to view the entire comment thread. Also, my brand new comment got stuck between 2 older ones over here. Weird.
Daniel Ha
· 2 years ago
The display sorting can be changed by the owner (Fred :). By default, it's sorted by the hottest comments (the most popular comments at the time). Also, the entire comment thread is viewable here. That link just allows you to view it in the context of the blog's full forum, so you can start a new topic that isn't in response to the blog entry. Thanks. :)
Razvan Roman
· 2 years ago
Looks tidy :)
ninefish
· 2 years ago
seems real cool, natural and nothing getting in the way of the stream of consciousness. If it's secure and still viable without the captchas then i'm a fan already
ninefish
· 2 years ago
what's with the scoring system though?
who gets to decide the position of the commentary?
Daniel Ha
· 2 years ago
you can help decide by voting up or down. the default sorting method is 'hottest' which is the most popular at this particular moment, but it can be viewed as newest, nominal best, etc.
ninefish
· 2 years ago
will it support CoComment?
Kendal H
· 2 years ago
Looks good to me. No captcha. Amazing
Jackson
· 2 years ago
As long as it works. Gotta keep my frequent commenter status.
Daniel Ha
· 2 years ago
With an account, you can keep an ongoing commenter reputation.
Michael Koziarski
· 2 years ago
Looks really cool. Though an openid signup would be great!
simon
· 2 years ago
testing testing one two three
simons
· 2 years ago
hmm its faster, lighter and cuts out the capcha.
nice,
eli
· 2 years ago
does it include threading?
Jason Preston
· 2 years ago
Apparently so. Fred, can I add this to my self-hosted WordPress blog?
Daniel Ha
· 2 years ago
Hi Jason, I sent you an email.
Jason Preston
· 2 years ago
I think comments have needed some overhauling for a while. I never understood why "regular blogs" didn't have the threaded comments I learned to love at livejournal. There's so much that can be done with just a static list.
acs
· 2 years ago
cool!
jasonknight
· 2 years ago
I like the point system for comments
Trev
· 2 years ago
will I did like it until I tried to post the a comment and got
"403 Forbidden
Cross Site Request Forgery detected. Request aborted."
Trev
· 2 years ago
- original comment -
I like!
like how you can go to disqus and sort comments by hotness, best etc.
Daniel Ha
· 2 years ago
Thanks for bringing that to our attention, Trev. That should only come up when, well, that's actually detected. ;)
We're looking into it right now.
BenjaminEllis
· 2 years ago
Sounds painful, but otherwise this looks cool and a step up in reading productivity!
Mike Douglas
· 2 years ago
Giving it a try.
chris
· 2 years ago
i'll let you know in 5 seconds
narnia
· 2 years ago
how far can you thread these comments?
m1ke
· 2 years ago
Anyone dare to find out?
Jed Christiansen
· 2 years ago
I'm willing to help try.
adamdoupe
· 2 years ago
One more level perhaps?
vc_sandwich
· 2 years ago
me eat venture capitalists for lunch
aqualung
· 2 years ago
Is this SezWho, or an alternative?
aqualung
· 2 years ago
Hah - should have read below the fold before asking that question ... notice it doesn't remember my details (name/email/blog) for the next comment
Jason
· 2 years ago
This has been added. Thanks for bringing it up.
Bryce
· 2 years ago
Anyone care to register a guess on who this secret comment start-up might be ;-)
That's neat - I made that last reply on the Disqus site and it appeared here on A VC pretty snappily ... nice so far. If you follow the discussion on the Disqus site you can double-click the Name/Email/Website boxes and the browser will help you with previously-entered values, but that doesn't work on Fred's site until you start entering something
ballytf
· 2 years ago
testing.
-edit- yeah creating a account on their site keeps track of comments and keeps you logged in.
Josh
· 2 years ago
There is no secret. I am the co-founder of intense debate and we have been in the open for quite a while.
Zoli Erdos
· 2 years ago
Oh, this is the night of Commenting :-) I just read the Intense Debate post on TechCrunch, and seeing the some of the attributes, I actually thought this was the same, with a different skin. Then it turns out to be Disqus... wow :-)
We'll coming up with a good approach to handling posting media in blog comments.
For now, if you view this thread on the forum (follow the link at the bottom), you are able to embed images with your new comment.
Let us know what you think!
keven
· 2 years ago
very cool!
Pete
· 2 years ago
Hmmm... what's the big deal here ?
Amesh Kubunterie
· 2 years ago
A cross-browser WYSIWYG editor would be nice to have along with an extended menu panel allowing me to insert some previously uploaded media to go along with my comment.
Sameer Shaikh
· 2 years ago
Hello Fred,
I liked it quite a bit but somehow getting some JS errors... morever I find it a bit slow... Another thing is about the UI the Mouse users really have to move a long way to click on the comment before filling in some info...
Adding counts and latest comments can help more...
Thanks for the suggestions, Sameer. We build the implementation to be as noninvasive as possible, but we're always improving on this. I wasn't able to replicate those JS errors -- I'd appreciate it if you sent me the details at daniel@disqus.com (Sorry I wasn't able to locate your contact info).
Tester
· 2 years ago
Comment
Don
· 2 years ago
Looks good. What platforms is/will it be available for?
jer979
· 2 years ago
taking one for the team just to see how the comment section is working for you.
SteveLB
· 2 years ago
My IE session hung for about 5 minutes when I tried to bring up comments. Now it is chewing 15% of my CPU and 170Mb of memory. Maybe still some bugs to shake out?
Daniel Ha
· 2 years ago
Thanks, I just made a note of that. We've been testing on IE but haven't seen that yet. Investigation underway!
ben s
· 2 years ago
looks slick.. can i use it too? :-)
Rick
· 2 years ago
I've been waiting for someone to make a nice, hosted comment system that could work on any site, regardless of the system, where it's hosted, etc.
Hopefully these guys have done it. Would love to try it with Feed.Us.
Mo
· 2 years ago
Fred, What happens to your MyBlogLog community?
Daniel Ha
· 2 years ago
Mo, we're working on something that won't lose people's MyBlogLog avatars.
Lloyd Fassett
· 2 years ago
Can you get the top rated comments into my RSS reader? I rarely pop out to a blog to check the comments out and would like to see only the most relevant ones that contribute to the conversation in my aggregator as a part of the post.
Ivan
· 2 years ago
This is a test of an emerging comment system.
Ivan
· 2 years ago
threaded
Pramod
· 2 years ago
Test comment. Hope you don't mind.
JD
· 2 years ago
check it!
Fred
· 2 years ago
Just testing!
sd
· 2 years ago
hello
ageedoy
· 2 years ago
Am I commenting on Digg, Reddit, or Facebook? I can't tell anymore!!! Ahhhhh!
Steve Kane
· 2 years ago
very cool stuff (albeit very reminiscent of good ol fashioned bulletin boards and newsgroups)
but i do miss being ble to preview my comment before actually posting
adam
· 2 years ago
Without javascript on, I can neither see the form nor the comments. I prefer the old system where I didn't have to turn on javascript
adam
· 2 years ago
furthermore, search engines won't find the comments. On the paging, it's really strange having the discussion split across multiple pages, I think I'd rather scroll
garytruitt
· 2 years ago
Nice, and easy to follow. Also like the click-in-box color....maybe add this feature to the Name,Email,Website fields as well. Just a thought.
bob
· 2 years ago
Test
bob
· 2 years ago
What's so revolutionary about this? It's a threaded blog. Slashdot has had that since 1998. Ohh...but now you can have your picture too.
EricFriedman
· 2 years ago
This already looks like a better system for comments. I am not seeing any integration for other services that many bloggers already have accounts with such as mybloglog, but perhaps they will soon. The multi-level threading system makes things much easier to read too. I will be integrating this into my blog soon.
Jesse Petersen
· 2 years ago
This is a pretty slick piece of coding. I like it a lot and it looks like it goes nicely on high-volume posts.
Jason
· 2 years ago
Hi Fred, feel free to reply to this message.
fredwilson
· 2 years ago
Testing this cool comment reply via email thingy
If this works disqus is my favorite web company of the day
Jason
· 2 years ago
:)
David Sweyer
· 2 years ago
This is just a test, please vote me up gang
Mick Liubinskas
· 2 years ago
Has some nice features, but I still found it a blur of "too long to read them all, can't tell where the gems are"
It's tough with comments since they don't stay relevant for too long and they rarely get enough mass of voting.
Mick Liubinskas
· 2 years ago
Yep, Tangler is here checking it out too. We're not a commenting tool, but we're all in this big space of Commtribution = community + contribution :-)
Or maybe CommGen = Community Generated Services. Like Warcraft is a CommGen.
Mick
Maykel
· 2 years ago
Petit essai afin de voir si cela fonctionne bien :-)
All Comments
who gets to decide the position of the commentary?
nice,
"403 Forbidden
Cross Site Request Forgery detected. Request aborted."
I like!
like how you can go to disqus and sort comments by hotness, best etc.
We're looking into it right now.
I'll start: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/07/intense-de...
-edit- yeah creating a account on their site keeps track of comments and keeps you logged in.
disqus = appears to be a Y Combinator start-up.
intense debate = a TechStars start-up.
Both have the same offering. Even the interface appears to be the same. Interesting coincidence to say the least. Will be fun to watch it play out :)
Shot at 2007-08-03
For now, if you view this thread on the forum (follow the link at the bottom), you are able to embed images with your new comment.
Let us know what you think!
I liked it quite a bit but somehow getting some JS errors... morever I find it a bit slow... Another thing is about the UI the Mouse users really have to move a long way to click on the comment before filling in some info...
Adding counts and latest comments can help more...
Regards
Sameer Shaikh
http://pm-better-than-sex.blogspot.com
Hopefully these guys have done it. Would love to try it with Feed.Us.
but i do miss being ble to preview my comment before actually posting
If this works disqus is my favorite web company of the day
It's tough with comments since they don't stay relevant for too long and they rarely get enough mass of voting.
Or maybe CommGen = Community Generated Services. Like Warcraft is a CommGen.
Mick
merci pour l'idée de ce système.
SDGF
dfdf767df
yawn.