Comments on: Why IntenseDebate Beats Echo

By: du hoc

du hoc — Mon, 16 May 2011 02:58:50 +0000

I am trying Intense Dabate but I have not tried Echo too. I heard that Intense Debate has good controlling spam comments and I think this is greater than echo !!!

By: Karol

Karol — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 21:54:09 +0000

I never tried Echo, I'm testing out Intensedebate now. Thanks for your post.
I see you have commentluv and intensedabte integrated… how can be done this?
My recent post A few tips on choosing an aquarium canopy

By: Zac Johnson

Zac Johnson — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:06:13 +0000

Great post. I recently changed this blog and a few others over to IntenseDebate and seeing a lot more active commentators. Thanks! My recent post Building Backlinks with Article Marketing

By: Dion de Ville

Dion de Ville — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:01:41 +0000

I was just about to remove Intense Debate from my blog and revert to WordPress's inbuilt comment system but I think I'll keep using it now I've read this blog post.

By: Michael Koenig

Michael Koenig — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:20:58 +0000

It's my pleasure Sharon. Currently the two are not compatible, but we're currently working with the team at CommentLuv on a new ID plugin. No ETA though. Please keep an eye on our blog for an announcement in the future http://blog.intensedebate.com .

By: Sharon Hurley Hall

Sharon Hurley Hall — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:36:53 +0000

Thanks for weighing in on the technical questions about Intense Debate, Michael. One thing I'm curious about is integration with CommentLuv. I have that plugin enabled and although I believe it's working automatically, the option to choose the post that appears no longer shows up. Any hints?

By: Kevin Eklund

Kevin Eklund — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:10:13 +0000

If I could implement some of the most popular commenting plugins with ID, I definitely be inclined to give it another try.

By: Kevin Muldoon

Kevin Muldoon — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:06:20 +0000

I'm more than happy with the default commentating system within wordpress but if a lot of readers wanted me to add an external comment system I would obviously look into it

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:14:55 +0000

IntenseDebate actually does offer video comments through a Seesmic plugin (http://intensedebate.com/plugins).

By: Michael Koenig

Michael Koenig — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:39:24 +0000

Kevin, we (IntenseDebate) have recently had several major backend projects (sharding, new search index tables, among others) come to completion and our load time and performance have drastically improved. We also have some heavy engineering weight on our backend in the form of the same engineers who built WordPress.com, so you can expect performance to be top notch like all other Automattic projects. We'd love it if you gave ID another try. We've also introduced loads of new customization options. While there are more options than I can list here, please check out http://wp.me/plsX6-kK for starters. Please let me know if you have any questions.

By: Michael Koenig

Michael Koenig — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:33:34 +0000

I can help with IntenseDebate. For reply-by-email, please try adding !END at the end of your comment. That will ensure that your reply is parsed correctly. If that doesn't do the trick please email at support@intensedebate.com and I'll take a look.

For login issues: please check and make sure that your browser preferences are set to accept third party cookies. Again if you encounter issues please let me know which browser you use (and email me please).

IntenseDebate offers Seesmic video comments. Please visit http://intensedebate.com/plugins

Thanks,

Michael

By: Kevin Eklund

Kevin Eklund — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:57:13 +0000

I've tried both Disqus and IntenseDebate and the main problem I've encountered with both is slow page loads. That's always a consequence anytime you depend on an outside service to load anything on your page. The other issue I have is that you can't fully customize these systems the way you can with the default WP commenting system.

Just curious, why hasn't BloggingTips moved to one of these commenting systems?

By: Sharon Hurley Hall

Sharon Hurley Hall — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:44:45 +0000

Echo has many of the same problems, DJ, though it *does* allow video comments, I believe. I haven't had the same issues with ID, though sometimes I have to approve comments twice.

By: DJ @ Fermentarium

DJ @ Fermentarium — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:32:33 +0000

I have IntenseDebate on my blog, but I have mixed reviews. More often than not when I reply to a comment via email, the comment disappears into the ether. This means I constantly have to log into ID on my blog, or directly to the site to respond to comments. Very annoying. Other than that, it seems to function much like the rest of the comment systems. I would like it if they included video comments too.