Our awesome community of translators has helped update several languages within Disqus:

• Polish
• Spanish
• French
• Arabic
• Dutch
• Latvian

To change the language on your site visit here and look under the general tab.

If you do not see your language on the drop-down menu, it could still be needing translation or simply need to be added. Feel free to apply to our translate application to make any updates or additions.

Again, huge shout out to our translators! You rock!

-Giannii

Each and every language on Disqus Comments has been generously translated by our lovely commenter community. Today we’ve added a new tool to make it easier when updating and adding new languages to Disqus.

You can find the application here: http://disqus.com/translate

You may apply to review a current translation or add new language, simply pick the language and hit the apply button.

Currently we need some help with a couple translations: Arabic, Chinese (simplified), German, and a couple others. If you happen to know a friend fluent in any of these languages with a generous personality, kindly direct them to the translate application.

Bonus:

We’ve made a small update to email notifications within Disqus Comments. Notification controls are now more granular so you can now disable receiving email notifications about comments marked as spam.

Again, a huge shout out to all of our translators!

-Giannii

We’ve made a couple improvements over in the tools section, the first being Improved Importing. In the past some publishers experienced trouble when importing large files and that isn’t a problem anymore. Our imports are now handled completely by our servers making things much more reliable and speedy.

We also fixed the Widgets (which can be found just above imports in the picture under code) to match the preset avatars and pull their available gravatars for commenter’s.

-Giannii

On your posts you can read, reply, and moderate all of your comments. This is a short guide explaining each part of that moderation process. Each of the numbered items below are numerically depicted in the picture above.

1. The commenters email address.
2. The commenters IP address
3. Edit any undesirable content instantly.
4. Removes comments from your post.
5. Mark comments as spam and remove it from your post.
6. Block users globally from your site. You will be presented with two options, and I recommend doing both for malicious commenters.
   
   • Email Address
   • IP Address
7. You can return to the full Disqus moderate panel here.

If you have any questions or feedback we’d love to hear it. Feel free and leave a comment below. =)

-Giannii

Today we’ve released a couple updates and bug fixes for our Wordpress Plugin. You can download the updated plugin here.

• Added support for closing comments on post/pages from within the Wordpress Admin.
• Fixed the RSS Feed problem that caused validation issues with some feeds.
• Fixed a minor bug with exporting comments from certain Wordpress configurations.
• Fixed a rare bug with logging into Disqus through our plugin.
• Fixed the displaying of certain track backs.

-Giannii

We’ve added a new option for publishers. You can now change the Default Avatar on your site.

You can now put your own personal stamp on comments left by people without an avatar. Often times, commenters may not have had a chance to set their own picture with their profiles. Or, if you allow guest comments on your site, many of your comments will be attached to Disqus’ own default ugly face. Now, you can use your own ugly face, logo, or whatever you wish.

You can change this option by heading over to your Settings page under Customize and Appearance. Simply upload a new image, crop it, and you’re good to go.

Now all comments left on your site with a default avatar will be changed to your new image.

-Giannii

Blogger is Google’s free tool for creating blogs across the web. We’ve recently released the ability to import your comments from such services as Intense Debate and JS-Kit.

Today, we released a new feature for publishers: Blogger Import.

If you’re already running Disqus you may need to re-patch your template to enable Disqus comments for all your past posts. You can do this by visiting the installation instructions here.

Note: Be sure to make a backup of your template before patching.

-Giannii

Yahoo! is a multifaceted service that millions of people use to easily search websites, send emails, and chat online. We recently released the ability to sign in with Twitter, Facebook, and OpenID.

Today, we released a new feature for publishers: Yahoo! Sign-in.

Disqus makes use of Yahoo!’s OAuth support to securely authenticate without sharing any passwords. Yahoo! Sign-in makes it easier and quicker for people to jump into a discussion. To enable Yahoo! Sign-in, publishers should proceed to Settings and enable the feature under General.

For commenters, just look for the Yahoo! Sign-in button on sites that have this feature enabled.

-Giannii

Reactions Count + Refresh!

We’ve updated and added a new option for publishers. You can now view the total reactions count along with your comment count on posts. The reactions count is the total number of mentions your post has received via Twitter, Facebook, and many other networks. If you’ve not enabled this feature, head over to your Settings and enable Reactions under General.

You can customize the Reactions count text by going to Customize under Settings. Click on Appearance and change the text fields to whatever you’d like. If you don’t want the reactions count at all, just make the field blank.

You can also refresh posts that you think are missing reactions on. Do this by simply visiting said post and click the “refresh reactions” button at the top of the thread.

Note: The Refresh Reactions button will only show up if you have zero reactions on the page.

-Giannii

We’re kicking off our new How-to’s section with a short guide on how to deal with spam.

By default, Disqus does a pretty good job on handling spam. Spammers, unfortunately, are a creative bunch. This guide should help you discover the right tools in Disqus that will combat spam the most effectively for your site.

Look for more How-to’s soon in this section as well. If you have an idea for a How-to, let us know in the comments.

—
Daniel