intense debate
Posted November 13th, 2008 at 14:20 by Kaweh
Filed under: kawehdashti.com
I have experimented with Intense Debate for a while now, as their commenting system looks tremendously promising. They have just been acquired by Automattic, the wordpress people.
It comes as a plug-in that syncs the comments on any given blog with their servers. Some sort of automated comment back-up, I guess. The plug-in features comment threading (comments appear as conversations, like in Gmail, not as chronological lists), replying to comments by email and importing and exporting comments to other commenting systems. So far so good. I really like it.
However, there does not appear to be a CSS file and it actually says on their website that they don’t recommend messing around with the CSS as the plug-in is in active development.
As Hugh has already pointed out, the design looked a little messed up. Thanks to Enzo, who suggested a small addition to our own little stylesheet, this issues has now been resolved and the comments no longer break the layout of the website.
So, no excuses, knock yourself out comment away.
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November 13th, 2008 at 7:30 am
I'm glad to see you've got it all sorted out : )
November 14th, 2008 at 10:32 am
I is really annoying me when something does not work and I don't know why.
Thanks for helping out.
I subscribed to your comic strip. It is great. Very true and funny.
November 15th, 2008 at 2:57 am
Haha, I'm the exact same way, especially when it comes to coding and all the wonderful technical perks that come with maintaining a website. >.<
And thanks so much, I really appreciate it. =D I hope you're not one to get offended by some of the stuff that's on there.
November 16th, 2008 at 11:41 am
These comments look so good that I've started using them on my Blog too!