Disqus Dumps Voting and Implements Likes
- Image by BenSpark via Flickr
Just caught a Tweet from Daniel Ha mentioning a new Disqus upgrade. Looks like they’ve dumped their normal ratings system for something more like FriendFeed, allowing you to Like comments. This just goes to show that FriendFeed hit the nail on the head with that simple feature as Facebook and 12seconds.tv (bumps) have both also implemented something similar.
How to Upgrade
I thought I would be able to simply go into my WP admin interface and automatically upgrade the plugin, but it turned out to not be that easy. I wasn’t given any notification that the plugin had an update available. When I accessed the Search/Install interface and searched for Disqus, I saw the updated version, but WP told me my current version was newer. I’m not sure what logic they’re using, but 2.0-xxx is definitely not newer than 2.1-xxx in my book.
I had to uninstall the version I had and manually install the new plugin.
Other Notes
According to the Disqus blog, this update speeds up Disqus in all browsers:
- Internet Explorer is up to 5x faster
- FireFox is up to 3x faster
- Webkit (Safari and Chrome), and Opera is up to 2x faster
There is also a Media menu that allows you to post a video comment (via Seesmic) and Disqus indicates more media functionality may be on the way.
I’m hoping specifically for 12seconds.tv support since that would make video commentators get to the point in a hurry (12 seconds, to be exact) and not ramble on for 20 minutes. This might actually make video comments feasible to view for the average person. As it stands, people avoid looking at video comments like the plague.
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Thanks for the mention Rasheen. We're looking into the WP upgrade issue you've mentioned. I'm not sure what it is yet, but it'll be sorted out.
Cheers.
Yups !
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I just added Disqus to my WordPress blog. I'm wondering if anyone has thoughts about whether using Disqus creates the problem of duplicate content for search engines, as what would have been posted once on one's site is now also posted on the discus site.and how can i to get the DisQus Logo T-shirt?
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The t-shirt looks cool,…any ways thanks for the posted.
One of the main advantages Disqus is; it has is the ability for users to login with Facebook Connect where the comments also appear in the commentators newsfeed, which has the capacity to go viral.
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Disqus now brings us the ability to comment using your Twitter account. You don’t have to give up your actual Twitter credentials since Disqus takes advantage of Twitter’s support
Disqus is a great tool, I have it on many of my blogs already. It will only get better in the next few years..Disqus is a popular commenting platform…
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