As a fan of threaded comments, I decided to try out a new plugin – IntenseDebate. This plugin allows for threaded comments, reply by email, commenter profiles and reputation points (though I may need to be sold on the value of this last one). As with all WordPress plugins, the install is a matter of unzipping the file to your plugin folder and then activating it in the plugin section of the dashboard.
The plugin supports WordPress (duh!), Blogger, TypePad and Tmblr with more to come.
UPDATE – I have disabled the plugin. Indexing the comments was taking too long, Commentluv and KeywordLuv were inactive and it was too much trouble. This is not to say that there is anything wrong with the plugin – if I had started with IntenseDebate from the beginning, there would not have been any issues, but the wait was just too great. Don’t let me put you off it – if I were to start a second blog, I would definitely install it.
Yes, I think IntenseDebate also stores the comments in their own server so as to track them. I am definitely uncomfortable with a third-party site keeping track of my comments over a period of time.
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I don’t have a major issue with it per se, my main issue was that it was too slow to import (almost 24 hours) and it seems not to work with at least 2 plugins.
Now I just have to work out why the gravatars haven’t changed….
Ray, you should be able to clear the Gravatar cache from the admin panel with a button. if not, you can delete them from the cache folder in the plugin’s folder.
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I have never used the plugin, but I appreciate the review. I may check it out and see if I can fix it.
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Thanks for the review of the plugin, I’ll check it out.
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I was wondering whether the comments were stored on your blog or the IntenseDebate server and then injected using javascript?
The latter would be a major point against using it for me, as well as CommentLuv
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I suspect it’s the latter. There is an option to use WP comments, but then you lose out on the features you use ID for.
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If I use the IntenseDebate plugin, could I still use KeywordLuv?
If forced to choose between the two, I think I’d go with the latter. How about you guys?
It seemed to lose both KeywordLuv and CommentLuv. I know that Andy Bailey is working on an update to make CommentLuv work work with ID, but don’t know about KeywordLuv. Because of this, and other things, I disabled ID for now.
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Thank you so much for the review… I will surely check it out.
Thanks for the info on the pulgin. I appreciate it!
Hey Ray… Thank you for writing an article about this new plug-in, which is not only applicable WP (yey!.) Hope you’ll make a review about this when installed.
When I’m sure that KeywordLuv and CommentLuv are fully supported (and I’m pretty confident about CommentLuv) I’ll enable it. I think….
Thats good info. Does that work for blog.com?
I’d bet that a few versions down the road that both KeywordLuv & CommentLuv will work fine. Both are very popular plugins, and ID seems to be up and coming too.
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Just asking, do you use Aweber? If so, can you provide more information on this? I am subscribed to your rss to check if you are going to post something on Aweber.
I don't know at the moment. I may at some point in the future. Sire is more knowledgeable about Aweber than I am…
Um, Ray, that's spam. For reference, Aweber is an email marketing service.
Really hating IS myself. I'm having to retype in my information every time I make a comment here.
I didn't know that at all. Huh, I must have confused it with something else. Most odd.
And I feel your pain over the commenting – when I comment from work I have to sign in as a guest, which is a real pain. The only way around it is to sign up with ID, which is probably the aim. I can't recall seeing a "remember me" check box, so I think I'll have to suggest it to them.
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lol. I don't think it's a spam though.
hahaha…yup! I agree, I have to type mine too. I have made a comment below 'Counter strike…' and now, I still have to write agan =.="
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It’s been quite sometime since I last visited this blog. Look like you have another great post entry again. lol. When are you going to stop posting good stuffs?
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I have been testing for a week now. See lots of drawbacks like no laguage suport. Too slow to load, and I am still not sure if it is a good choice. Can you explain why you keep it?
I don't have any language support problems as this blog is in English so I don't see that side of things. It's not that slow to load, depends what else I am doing. It's an easy way to have threaded comments, which I like as I see the comments pages as conversations.
I think IntenseDebate also stores the comments in their own server so as to track them. I am definitely uncomfortable with a third-party site keeping track of my comments over a period of time.
I'd bet that a few versions down the road that both KeywordLuv & CommentLuv will work fine. Both are very popular plugins, and ID seems to be up and coming too.
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