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.

The current situation with comments on apocryph.org is untenable.