Disqus Comment System

Submitted by Jordan on July 6, 2008 - 9:36pm.

I spent a short amount of time setting up the Disqus comment system here at JordanHackworth.com this weekend.

Disqus is a comment system vastly superior to the built in comments module on Drupal, (the CMS this site uses) but Disqus is independent of any particular web platform, in fact it could replace the comment system on nearly any website.

Disqus users have a profile which is used for every site that uses Disqus. By logging into Disqus I will automatically comment as myself on any Disqus enabled site.

Disqus goes much further then a centralized login, it has social aspects to it. My Disqus profile automatically grabs my Twitter status, and has links to my Facebook, Flickr, and Del.icio.us account. You're able to 'follow' other Disqus users, much like you can in Twitter.

Comments can be upmodded, downmodded, you can reply to a specific comment or follow the comment thread.

From an administration point of view, Disqus saves a lot of hassle of managing comments. In the case of setting it up with Drupal, it was a simple matter of installing the Disqus module. The module can be found here.

My Disqus profile is: disqus.com/people/JordanHackworth/

Feel free to leave a comment on this post to try out Disqus.