Goodbye DISQUS, Hello WordPress

So it wasn’t that long ago I mentioned I was moving my comments system to DISQUS. The fact that the system was being used on more blogs, and also had social media integration with its Reactions feature that pulled stats from anywhere else your blog was being discussed, seemed pretty cool. Yet, lately, DISQUS seems [...]


Why Would You Bother to Comment?

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This is a guest post following a great chat I had with Valerie Merahn Simon, and is a nice follow-up on my recent post about Twitter and blog comments. If you’re like me, you read a lot of blog posts. Many of them are good posts. Some you’ll even share via Twitter or email. But [...]


Is Twitter Killing Blog Comments?

If you’re a blogger, you’ll know how comments make a blog. They can take the original post into a whole new level altogether, with opposing views and discussions opening up some great viewpoints. Personally, I’ve used the comments on some of my posts (and those on other blogs) as inspiration for new posts here. I’ll [...]