still trying to decide which one to go with – a good breakdown below
Good:
- Minimalist and Fast: DISQUS is really less intrusive when implemented on a blog than Intense Debate is, and it feels snapper & faster to load.
- Seesmic, Facebook Connect, and Friendfeed commenting: These are options that are all essential now and it great that DIQUS will even pull in comments from different sources like FriendFeed.
- Nicer community pages: The community pages for
DISQUS powered blog, like the community page for Open Mode, do a better
job of giving not only the blog admin information, but also useful
information for anybody in general. But even though I think it’s a bit
better than Intense Debates blog pages, I’d still like to see more useful information about my blogs commenters, and trends.
Bad:
- Options pages are confusing and too big: The
Settings page for an DISQUS comment site is 4 screens long. And some of
the options are not needed (like font size) or unclear (please use a
radio form with image rather than only select forms all the time). - I can’t do front end comment moderation: DISQUS
only lets me Reply or Reblog other people’s comments while Intense
Debate lets me Delete or Block IP of comments as well. (I actually
changes all the settings for one blog and copied over different
widgets, and then realized that the DISQUS admin area had been set to
the wrong blog in it’s select box… Enough with the select boxes already!) - Structure: Even though DISQUS might be minimalist
and a bit faster, the placement of buttons, comments, trackbacks, could
be better. Everything seems to fit together much more nicely on an ID
system. This could be because of ID’s heavier use of graphic buttons
while DISQUS is effected more by your site’s HTML + CSS.
see here for original review
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