Trying out disqus comments
After posting my lament about the shitty blog comment options in Drupal, I’ve rummaged around and decided to give Disqus a try. The comment system is hosted by them completely separately from Drupal, but their system allows me to export comments so if/when they go tits up I can at least save the comments off somewhere.
I’m not too crazy on their integration scheme, which relies on using AJAX goodness to insert the comments into a div element I provide on each page. This means search engines won’t index any comments in situ, though I imagine engines crawl the Disqus site and will find them that way.
Anyhow, it’s a shitty implementation, but it was the best I could find. Hopefully the Akismet module for Drupal gets ported to 6.x or I find some other way to solve the comments problem.
March 16th, 2008 - 02:52
This new comment system is OK. Anyone can post comments now without waiting for you to go through the moderation queue.
March 16th, 2008 - 02:53
Oh, and it’s bullshit that the comment system requires me to type an email address. I’ll just type a bogus one in anyway; who the hell are they fooling?
March 16th, 2008 - 02:53
No kidding. That mod queue was killing me.
March 16th, 2008 - 02:53
Yes, that thoroughly blows.
May 5th, 2008 - 18:37
hi , im looking for a comment alternative for my drupal site also, i stumble upon your blog and found disqus on your site , could you point me to some direction on integrating disqus to drupal 6? whats needed? thanks
May 18th, 2008 - 19:18
There’s nothing in Drupal explicitly to integrate with Disqus. I just got the HTML code to embed the Disqus widget from the Disqus site, then added that to the footer for my site’s theme. Easy.
May 18th, 2008 - 19:19
It also blows that the XML export doesn’t preserve comment hierarchies.
What about HTML? Does it HTML-ify non-HTML text? What if I put some html in? How about mal-formed HTML?