Disqus: The Official Blog

Stocking Stuffers: Blogger Sync, Improved Reactions and Spam Reporting.

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:05:00 -0500

Blogger Sync

Publishers can now sync all existing and new comments back to Blogger. You can go ahead and enable it here.

Improved Reaction Reporting

We’ve enhanced the way we pull reactions from all your favorite social networks making it more efficient and timely. If you feel that reactions are missing from a post, simply click the Report Reactions link above the comment embed. This will queue your site to be rescanned by our reaction bots.

Improved Spam Reporting

We’ve been monitoring and making improvments to way we recognize and mark spam. Monday we pushed some significant changes to help remove undesirable content globally on Disqus. To help this process along be sure that you’re marking spam comments as spam. For more information about spam prevention read this helpful guide.

Automatically Close Comments After # of Days

Publishers can now set a certain time period in which comments are automatically closed. Go ahead and try it out here.

Updated: In Reply to

Some reply threads can become very long and to reference a comment you click the “in reply to name” link. This would zip you back up to the original comment. Now instead of loosing your place on the page, a popup window will show the previous comment.

Happy Holidays from all of us at Disqus,

-Giannii

Vote + Comment on your Favorite X-mas flick at BBC's Radio Times!

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:57:00 -0500

Movies are a big part of what the holidays are all about, and in the spirit of the season the folks at Radio Times from BBC have put together a list of festive film fare .
To get you in the mood, they’ve come up with their top five Christmas movies of all time.

So head on over, read the reviews, post a comment (via Disqus!) and vote in their seasonal film survey:
http://www.radiotimes.com/greatestfilms/

Welcome paidContent to the Disqus Community!

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:37:00 -0500

paidContent.org provides breaking news, analysis and commentary on the economics of digital content. It is the flagship of a group of media news blogs owned by Guardian News and Media Ltd., covering related spaces such as the business of mobile (mocoNews.com), digital media in the UK (paidContent.co.uk) and media news in India (contentSutra.com).

We’re thrilled to welcome them to Disqus. Stop by and leave a comment, and note the innovative hybrid approach they’ve taken to provide login options to both their current and new users.

-Giannii

Welcome AllThingsD to the Disqus Community!

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:49:00 -0500

AllThingsD.com is a Web site devoted to news, analysis and opinion on technology, the Internet and media. But it is different from other sites in this space. It is a fusion of different media styles, different topics, different formats and different sources.

Give them a warm welcome to the Disqus Community and leave them a comment or two!

-Giannii

Disqus Comments: New Translations Available

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:47:53 -0500

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

Disqus Comments: Translated in over 40 languages

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:49:00 -0500

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

Disqus Comments: Improved Importing and Widgets

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:05:48 -0400

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

Disqus Comments: Moderating comments from your Post

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:50:41 -0400

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.

The commenters email address.
The commenters IP address
Edit any undesirable content instantly.
Removes comments from your post.
Mark comments as spam and remove it from your post.
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
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

Disqus Comments: Closing comments on Wordpress and some bug fixes

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:37:12 -0400

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

Disqus Comments: Set a default avatar for your site

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:54:00 -0400

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

Disqus Comments: Import Your Blogger Comments

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:06:00 -0400

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

Disqus Comments: Yahoo! Sign-in

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:00:05 -0400

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

Disqus Comments: Reactions Count + Refresh!

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:57:00 -0400

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

Dealing with Spam

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:09:20 -0400

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

Disqus Profile: My Connections

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:45:00 -0400

Disqus Profile: My Connections

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:40:00 -0400

Disqus Profile is not another social media account. Rather it’s the universal management tool for commenters and the most efficient way to integrate all your different online identities.

Under Connections you can pre-authenticate your Twitter, Facebook, or Open ID and reblog your comments across multiple services such as Tumblr, Wordpress, Movable Type, and Typepad.

If you’ve commented before using Twitter, Facebook, or OpenID without a Disqus account, now all your comments will be automatically merged once connected.

Also add your Twitter and Facebook Avatars to your profile.

Cheers,

Giannii
DISQUS
Community Manager
help@disqus.com
@Disqus

Checking out a preview of the new Disqus http://disqus.com/v3/

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:45:00 -0400

Checking out a preview of the new Disqus http://disqus.com/v3/