Intense Debate or Disqus? I’m torn.

14 May 2008

ID vs Disqus

I can’t decide.

I’ve used and loved Disqus in the past, but felt the data portability options were limited. I loved the data portability options of Intense Debate, but found it lacked support with FriendFeed. Recently, I went on record as to my reasons for liking Intense Debate. One of those reasons included their willingness to support Seesmic video comments. Today, Disqus has added Seesmic Video comments to their system. I’m left with the following:

Intense Debate allows me to import/export comments to and from my WordPress blog with relative ease. That is good feeling to have.

Disqus integrates with FriendFeed very well and has gained great popularity due to Dave Winer and Robert Scoble‘s seal of approval. Their (Disqus) community is very bullish about the platform.

So part of me wants Disqus for the Seesmic/FriendFeed support while the other part likes the data portability options (the ease of it) of Intense Debate. Now here’s another thing: This post may draw people from the Disqus AND the Intense Debate communities. Since I currently have Intense Debate installed, I doubt many Disqus users will bother commenting. That’s a whole ‘nother bag of apples.

I really miss video comments and was willing to move to Intense Debate because they expressed interest while I heard nothing from Disqus. Now, Disqus has launched support, and I’m hearing nothing from Intense Debate.

Torn.

Post written by Bwana

Tags: comments, disqus, intensedebate, seesmic, web2.0, wordpress

http://intensedebate.com/people/rambls rambls

I've got to say that I've been an I.D. user and supporter for quite awhile. I lived in Boulder so call me biased a little bit. Plus Mike plays a funky bass so the scale tips that way for me.

However, when I relaunched battlemouth.com we tried disqus first. I was please with the features but wasn't overly impressed with them, the UI or the system itself. I'm a huge fan of I.D. and I think I would be even if I wasn't as biased as I am. For more reasons why check this post out: http://www.rambls.com/2008/08/21/tech-support-int…
http://intensedebate.com/people/bwana18751 bwana18751

Well since this blog post, a lot has happened. It's pretty old considering how much Disqus and ID have improved. You see that I'm still using ID so no need to convince me
http://intensedebate.com/people/mynameisraj mynameisraj

I think Intense Debate is awesome. But they found me, I didn't find them. I got followed by IntenseDebate on twitter and the rest is history (but not interesting history)
http://intensedebate.com/people/AmberS AmberS

I hear ya. Its just good to hear the different perspectives. I have Disqus because when I first tried to install it ID did not play nice with my template. I think if anything they should both offer integration with one another so they can both take over the comment world.
http://intensedebate.com/people/d3bruts1d d3bruts1d

I just went through this whole internal debate… ended up going with DISQUS because of the ability to import/export comments from WordPress.
http://intensedebate.com/people/AmberS AmberS

Since the changes in Disqus, have you changed your stance at all? Its a pretty close call in the first place, but I would like to see an update from you on this.
http://intensedebate.com/people/Laibcoms Laibcoms

You need to update IMO
ID supports "taking back" the comments made via FriendFeed into your ID comment-flow.
Disqus launched their full API (and continually building on it) so no more SEO worries for the API users, and if I'm not mistaken you can now import (even pre-Disqus posts) and export (if I remember correctly).

But just like what another blogger said, we can only choose one. I did not go on my plan to add Disqus and ID in gameshogun even though it's possible. I chose Disqus, it's my first. I guess in this stiff competition of Disqus and ID, the factor of "first" comes into play. I touched Disqus first so I'll stick with it. However that doesn't mean I don't have an account in ID
http://intensedebate.com/people/feedarena feedarena

Interesting opinions. I have run myself a comparison between 4 different commenting services (Disqus and IntenseDebate are on the list) and my conclusion is: a) if you are running a blog than IntenseDebate is my recommendation, but if you are running a site (or blog on a not so well known platform), Disqus will probably offer more value. You can read the details here http://themindstorms.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/com…

./alex
http://intensedebate.com/people/feedarena feedarena

Interesting opinions. I have run myself a comparison between 4 different commenting services (Disqus and IntenseDebate are on the list) and my conclusion is: a) if you are running a blog than IntenseDebate is my recommendation, but if you are running a site (or blog on a not so well known platform), Disqus will probably offer more value. You can read the details here http://themindstorms.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/com…

./alex
Tanya Heat

Even after going through their website, I can’t quiet comprehend what the main advantage of this function as at relates to WordPress comment feature
Tanya Heat

Even after going through their website, I can’t quiet comprehend what the main advantage of this function as at relates to WordPress comment feature
http://Jnote.org/ James

Looks like you moved to BackType! I’m a Disqus man myself…
http://Jnote.org James

Looks like you moved to BackType! I’m a Disqus man myself…
http://enjoytheabuse.com/ bondage

and it looks like DISQUS lost the battle.
http://enjoytheabuse.com bondage

and it looks like DISQUS lost the battle.
http://www.FreezingMoon.org/ Dread Knight

I’m an Intense Debate user, might try out disqus because their widget is nicer overall….and I’m also a backtype user, but didn’t knew you could use it for this kind of stuff as well
http://www.FreezingMoon.org Dread Knight

I’m an Intense Debate user, might try out disqus because their widget is nicer overall….and I’m also a backtype user, but didn’t knew you could use it for this kind of stuff as well
http://damiansaunders.net/ Damian Saunders

Intense Debate had me until I realized I could not edit comments, or my replies after I had submitted them.

Not without a workaround anyway…some bogus rationale about censorship.

I’m now a happy Disqus user.
http://damiansaunders.net Damian Saunders

Intense Debate had me until I realized I could not edit comments, or my replies after I had submitted them.

Not without a workaround anyway…some bogus rationale about censorship.

I’m now a happy Disqus user.
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