Interesting that even older posts have their place in “today” when the conversation continues from year to year. I am still seeing many, including myself, debating the pros and cons of these two off-blog commenting systems.

After some research, I installed Disqus about 6 months ago. Six months later, it seemed (from the hype) that Intense Debate had added features and fixed flaws that made me dismiss it previously. So, I installed ID this past weekend. Within a few hours, after attempting to edit a comment and finding that I couldn't, I uninstalled it. Every blog owner wants the ability to edit the comments on their own site (not to change the intent, but sometimes mis-spellings and such). That was the first show stopper.

The second one was that I could not find a way to comment using the username/ID I wanted to use. With different websites and participating in different kinds of discussions, I want to use the relevant username in my comments. Needless to say, I went back to Disqus. I'm sure this conversation will go on and on, until they both get off-site commenting like WE want it.

Under the Settings:General page you'll see at the very bottom of the page a “delete this site” button.

I think Disqus has done a better job of adding the features users want, while keeping the design of the tool very clean. I look at what ID adds to their system and as they add more and more things I really don't need or that are kind of stupid you'll see that you can't even install the plugin on a blog and be happy because it's all so messy!

On top of that, now that Disqus has a really nice separation on their site between Disqus comments and your Disqus Profile it's a bunch more fun to use as far as managing your commenting identity on other sites.

Make sure to check out all the sharing options disqus has now as well.

Take care.

Another show stopper which recently affected me was the default layout of ID put all the Trackbacks to your post above the comments or comment box, and there was not way of changing that. You'll notice that for Disqus, the trackbacks and social media reactions all come AFTER the comments.

I think this is a logical design decision to make because I'm most concerned with comments, giving them the best visibility and putting them right there at the top to make it easier for readers to comment.

Thanks for your comments Damian.

Twenty four hours later I′m using Disqus, and I′m happy with it.

Here′s the thing…Intense Debate would not allow me to edit comments, nor could I edit my replies after they were submitted. That, folks, was a show stopper for me.

Though after having used both systems for a while, I can now say since the last times I've used Intense Debate, it was generally better at blocking spam than what I'm seeing with Disqus now.

Taking a bit more time to reflect, the fact that Disqus adapts better to the custom colours of my Wordpress theme is a huge plus. With this orange Evidens theme I'm using currently, the blueness of Intense Debate would simply look too out of place

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What did you think of ID?

At this point I'm not too ashamed to event switch back and forth as each tool improves.

Why should you use any of them I can't really answer. You could have your own reasons to use a specific platform, or to not use a platform at all. But thankfully its easy enough to try, test, and change platforms while keeping your comment data safe on your server.

Then I'd ask, what do you think of the recent news about Disqus and Intesnse Debate plugins?

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!What a whirlwind of change to keep up with! And I’m not talking about the economy. Rumors of Google and Twitter…. speculation of Facebook becoming Twitter….

I’m working on our Blogger layout because Intense Debate didn’t work and now that I have uploaded a new layout, there is no way for people to leave comments! It doesn’t say “Leave a comment”……