You are hereRemoving Disqus because sometimes I go backwards to go forwards.
Removing Disqus because sometimes I go backwards to go forwards.
So in the last few weeks I've taken on a few projects involving comments on seanreiser.com and it seems that they are conflicting with each other, and I've come to the decision that where I like disqus, I have to go back to the default Drupal comment module.
First off let me say that disqus is great, I'm getting less (as in no) spam since installing it. The social aspects of it has increased traffic to my site. As the person who wrote the howto for Drupal + Disqus I feel it's important for me to say I really have enjoyed using it and suspect I'll be back when the one thing I need from them is resolved.
The project that's a problem is my comment aggregation project. The more I look at this project the more I realize I want to have these comments imported into whatever comment system that's running on my blog (with links back to the original comment) and in it's current form, disqus can't import comments. I have spoken to Daniel Ha on the subject and where they are working on it, there is no time table he can give me for when they will have this in place.
I've spent the last few days playing in a sandbox trying to have both disqus and external comments, but I haven't found a solution that didn't feed forced, so I have decided to stop trying and take the step back in the short term. I will be importing the 30 or so comments into the natve comment system and hacking that system in the next few days (expect some instability). When disqus adds the functionality I'm looking for I'll reevaluate my options.
EDIT: I have reenabled Disqus. See this for more information
Wow, in the last 3 minutes I've gone from:
1. I should use DisqUS - Scobleizer Twittered about it, what more do I need?
2. How do I install it in Drupal?
3. That looks easy enough, even the proper way
4. But what about my existing comments? I guess I'll take the time to import them...
5. [this posting]
6. Maybe I'll wait
Thanks!
Let me say, if I were just trying to preserve my old comments, I'd still be on it. I'd just turn off comment new comments, set the comment field in the node table to 1 and displace the old comments. It's the fact I'm trying to set up comment feeds from other sources, (livejournal, friendfeed, etc) which is pushing me away. To be honest, I'm even rethinking that idea with sesmic integration and my lack of free time, I'm thinking it make be better to put DIsqus back on. I strongly suspect that Disqus is working on pumping friendfeed coments into disqus (as they did with plaxo) and perhaps leverage the comment module for livejournal and old comments.