Disqus - Friends of dhs

Re: Disqus Joins The Battle For Your Blog’s Comments

immad — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:41:42 -0000

I am loving this. I am a lot more likely to comment if a lot more blogs use this. Currently its so hard to keep track of comments I make

Re: Feedback for disqus (Scripting News)

immad — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 15:59:00 -0000

This is pretty cool. I always felt scripting news was missing out on interesting conversations through comments.

Re: The Fun of Launch

immad — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:23:04 -0000

you have the hottest comment. When i was doing revmap people never understood what hot meant. It just seems so obvious that its comments sorted by time-weighted ratings, duh

Re: The Fun of Launch

immad — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:42:17 -0000

nice. I also like how when I come to this page your comment was highlighted. Here is a usability point for you. When I click on reply it would be god if the comment field was already selected. I know why you dont, but I think you should work around it, cause i don't see the point of clicking twice.

Re: The Fun of Launch

immad — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:47:00 -0000

I knew that caveat. Thats why I said "i know why you dont" :P. I think you can work around that...

Re: Testing disqus can you leave me a comment to see if/how it works ?

immad — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:56:49 -0000

its taking over the world!

Re: Rails Shared Hosting

immad — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:39:12 -0000

you know about heroku.com. Fello ycers from new round. Basically what you describe and maybe better.

Re: Rails Shared Hosting

immad — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:12:18 -0000

they were on a couple of blog posts and on yc.news. But maybe they dont want more attention, so u make a fair point

Re: Rails Shared Hosting

immad — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:12:46 -0000

go ahead and delete these comments just in case :)

Re: Rails Shared Hosting

immad — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:49:10 -0000

people want to build web apps before they want to train as sysadmins. You aren't really seeing the point of the post

Re: Trends, gaps and trends

immad — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:25:30 -0000

Ahh interesting. The comment on monopolistic behaviour is very interesting. Also I guess at times virtual goods have high initial costs and are only sold once, i.e. one off virtual goods.

I don't remember Joe talking about it that much... What point did he make about trends? (this is just my bad memory I am sure)

Re: Trends, gaps and trends

immad — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:48:53 -0000

You got me there. I have heard similar statements but didn't investigate. Let me see what i can find..

http://www.readwriteweb.com... says

"by some accounts, about 3 billion mobile phone users in the world.". Well that doesn't justify the statement. I will make a correction. Thanks

Re: Kittens + bouncing ball = endless fun

immad — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:03:10 -0000

lol. Alexis you is crazy :P

Re: Trends, gaps and trends

immad — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:44:54 -0000

wow, that is off-topic. Yes I did. But, gotto say I don't remember many names/faces from when i was younger than 9 :). My Email is immad ( at ) akhund d0T net, email me.

Re: Heroku | API and External Git Access

immad — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:46:05 -0000

wow, been waiting for this for a long time. I can't do much without vi. Nice

Re: Log into Disqus with OpenID using Clickpass

immad — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:05:14 -0000

Awesome!!!!

Re: Log into Disqus with OpenID using Clickpass

immad — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:58:57 -0000

Hi Adam,

Clicking on the clickpass button takes you to clickpass where you can signup and get an OpenID from us. If you would like to use your own openid you can use the OpenID icon. Once you signup to Clickpass you can associate your own OpenID to your Disqus account and get the best of both worlds. Hope that clarifies things,

Re: Log into Disqus with OpenID using Clickpass

immad — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:56:22 -0000

Hi Luke, team@clickpass.com is good. I am going to look into that bug, I am not sure if we tested on wordpress 2.5, it was working on a few versions though. Thanks for the heads up.

Re: Log into Disqus with OpenID using Clickpass

immad — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:57:53 -0000

Yep, completely agree with the public point. Also I can see the custom OpenID dropdown can be confusing, we have a limited space to work with, hopefully we can re-jig a few things to make that clearer in the future.

Re: Installing Clickpass

immad — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:32:19 -0000

Hi,

Thanks for you feedback. Both good suggestions, I will implement the tab thing straight away and see what we can come up with for the "all on one" page.

Re: Merge accounts

immad — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:37:53 -0000

Hi,

Although we don't document it (to keep things simple). You can pass signup_only=true to the process_openid_registration URL. So that it will not ask for the users merge details. For example, here is the normal Disqus process_openid_registration page:

http://www.clickpass.com/pr...

nand here it is with signup_only=true

http://www.clickpass.com/pr...

We are working on ways to remove the Clickpass based merge process. It is the most user friendly way of doing it, and easiest for website owners to implement without having to worry about all the edge cases. But we share your concerns with it.

Thanks for your feedback, much appreciate,
Clickpass

Re: The entrepreneurial ladder

immad — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:30:39 -0000

Hi Ewan, amusing comment. Please get in touch immad (at) clickpass d0t com.

Re: Those Xobni guys are ballsy

immad — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:11:03 -0000

Matt aren't you missing Matt Maroon's (obvious) point that Xobni could not sell even if the founders wanted to. Xobni did a VC round at around $10m post, how could they sell for only $20m?

Either way, I wouldn't consider them that ballsy, if you have done a $5m round and are doing really well by many measure why would you settle for a $20m exit? I am sure they pay themselves more than enough to live happily.

Re: Button - connection

immad — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:33:29 -0000

Hi Justindz,

The nonce-protection referred to here is specific to the connect button; this is at stage 3 at the bottom when you are creating the site through clickpass.com/developer.

The nonce is necessary to stop cross site forgery attacks where someone could set the users OpenID at a site without his/her consent.

It is fairly easy to setup, basically you create a user-specific nonce (a random number), store the nonce in the user's session and then pass it to the callback URL that you can see used in the connect button (it is the override_openid_callback_url parameter). When you get a connection request check whether the nonce is correct before proceeding.

Many people opt initially to not show a connect button and add it in later to the user account page. It is very much an additional usability feature.

- Hope that helps, Immad

Re: Button - connection

immad — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:40:14 -0000

Hi,

Good point, that button at the top should be the same as in the developer section. I will correct that. If you would like to use the same button as login if you simply follow the steps above but remove the part that says "mode=connect" it will show up as the normal Clickpass Enter button. Hope that makes sense.

I see the issue with the OpenID selector dropdown on the connect button. It is supposed to work. There is no reason why at connection the user shouldn't use their OpenID.

Will fix those issues asap. Thanks for your comment,
Immad