Disqus and IntenseDebate Add Good New Features

By Hercules K, BUSINESS 2.0 PRESS
Published: March 6 2009, 2:57 pm EST

IntenseDebate and Disqus are the main two third party commenting systems for Wordpress blogs that add a whole lot more features effortlessly on your part.

Today, IntenseDebate (owned by Automattic, the same company behind Wordpress), has just rolled out new features. Commentators can now easily create their own poll, and embed their own YouTube videos, add smiles, among other features.

One of the main advantages Disqus (used on this blog) has is the ability for users to login with Facebook Connect where the comments also appear in the commentators newsfeed, which has the capacity to go viral.

I recently contacted Intense Debate and they told me they have no current intention of adopting Facebook Connect.

Another big advantage Disqus has is they’ve just announced a partnership with Ubervu, which will bring comments made on other sites such as Digg back to your own blog, further encouraging conversations on your own blog. Mashable has an exclusive preview of this new feature, but will be available to everyone fairly soon. Disqus just told me that they will release it to the general public soon.

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  • As far as I understand, Disqus and Intense Debate do the same thing. ... but Disqus seem to be a bit more cutting-edge, developing new features etc. ...
  • Disqus had been really famous for many bloggers, for with disqus they can easily monitor their comment.
  • thats really a cool stuff been posted.. DISQUS rocks.. great experience with it... hope it beats the competitors.. thanks for your info!!!!!!!
  • Disqus is the best commenting system because it offers flexibility for users that want to surf more than 2-3 blogs. Creating one user that can access all the blogs was a brilliant idea and it helped the Disqus community grow.
  • IntenseDebate is good thing
  • thanks a lot for the post! I think it's amazing system! That's why I use it!
  • I initially installed Intense Debate but something about it was leaving me discontented.
    It's a hard decision to make between the two.
    The clincher for me came when I realized I couldn't edit comments, or replies that I had already submitted - not without some messing about anyway. That was a show stopper.
    Having moved to Disqus I can say I'm very satisfied - nothing's perfect, but this is pretty good.
  • Hii im jack i want to know more about information. thanks.
  • Thanks for sharing disqus is growing up
  • Disqus is the best.Thanks for the review.
  • Nice post. Thanks for sharing
  • I like the blog so much, thanks for sharing.
  • dodly
    i really like your blog its very nice information
  • samuelstanislas
    Disquis has more and more users, I see "Powered by Disquis" blogs everywhere so it's about time we got some new applications. I just hope they will be very useful.
  • It was my understanding that he current version of the plugin shows the comments via javascript? I
    know in the past versions of the plugin Scott Jangro hacked it to remove nofollow. seem antagonize the google?
  • Really a great post.very interesting to read it
  • luwinski
    I am very interested. I have everything ready, and would very much appreciate it.Thanks a lot for sharing........
  • Great posting. I like this.IntenseDebate is already great as it is, these features make it very tempting to try.
  • Great posting.
    Yeah !
    Hopefully disqus will resolve the problem with the track back link.
  • What a useful post here. Very informative for me..TQ friends...
  • darekjones
    I stumbled on your blog on google and after reading a few of your other posts, I’ve decided to add your rss to my Google News Reader.

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  • Disqus is Great! Currently there are some "comment plugins" which can let a page have function of comment.The best one I know is Disqus With greater control and commenter profiles. this plugins is really cool, I love it. Thanks for Sharing..
  • I started with Intense Debate and didn't like it. I love using Disqus.
  • Disqus is Great! Currently there are some "comment plugins" which can let a page have function of comment.The best one I know is Disqus With greater control and commenter profiles. this plugins is really cool, I love it. Thanks for Sharing..
  • Beck
    May be they have no current intention of adopting Facebook Connect... But in future they should adopt it to make their business more profitable.. Disqus is always take care about their users and so they are in peak position among comment systems..
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  • Yep they both have nice features. That would be an interesting debate.
  • afallison
    i am really liking disqus. especially the way it integrates twitter. ;)
  • it is great, and now they've fixed the problems with the Reactions feature. They just need to do what IntenseDebate is doing and allow developers to make plugins like a YouTube video embed plugin or something
  • I'll definitely go for Disqus any day. With disqus I can manage and control all my threads.
  • I think Disqus is a lot better, I just want them to roll out that new social media comments feature :)
  • Pete
    yeah and disqus is gonna bring comments from social sites back to the original source which will be great - i hope they add some of the new features that intense debate has added like the poll (not as much) and the ability to embedd youtube videos.
  • Disqus VS. Intense Debate

    Winner: Disqus!
  • i agree too, no doubts in my mind at all. I Don't think there is any other commenting plug in as good as disqus!
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