DISQUS

Great !

When will they support coComment ? That's still the best service, IMHO, to gather all your comments, everywhere.....

Hi,

I can see that you are running some ads on your site. And I guess that, like many bloggers, you are interested in getting more traffic.
Now: what do you actually think of this option to have people commenting out of your site ? This mean that a conversation started here can continue WITHOUT any traffic for you:
- Less ads revenue
- People no longer see teasers for events/articles, .......
Taking this into account, would you be willing to outsource your comments to a service that enable offsite commenting ?

One thing I forgot to mention ;-)
With Disqus, it is possible to comment on the conversation directly on Disqus site. It might not be a problem for many site owners, but I really do not like this.
It is not just about traffic on my site, but mainly because by not coming back to my site, people will not see last posts and other stuff on my sidebar.

Hi,

Do you know that coComment offers similar features as Disqus, but also:
- You and your commenters can own comments and track conversations not only on Disqus sites, but everywhere on the web.
- You can import comments to your site conversations (and also export comments from conversations on your site: so you can go out later if you want)
- Styling is much better: they offer a nice styling wizard, and you can also change the CSS.
- Very good support. They answered all my questions very quickly and also offered me to do the changes on my blog ;-)
- The comment ranking is very simple and straight forward.
- It does not have Twitter integrate (shame on them ;-)), but actually they have some RSS feeds to retreive you own comments or comments on your site that can be used with external services like tweetfeed.

- Yes, they should also think about FriendFeed aggregation. Very good point. I will drop an email to their support about this.

I'm currently preparing a new blog and I made a comparison of Disqus, IntenseDebate, coComment and Haloscan. Disqus and coComment were in the short list. I ended up with selecting coComment because of the fact that tracking conversations was not restricted to Disqus only conversations. And I do think this is not only a good service to offer to my users, but also it can bring traffic to my blog from the bigger coComment community. I might change my mind when Disqus will have a HUGE coverage of the web conversations. But I do not see this happen soon as many bloggers will probably stick to the platform commenting system (like WP, Movabletype, blogger......).

Just wanted to share with you my thought and investigation results on what is available now.

Not sure this is exactly the same: the issue with FriendFeed and others is fragmentation: multiple conversations on the same article.
With Disqus, people can comment on Disqus site and do not need to come back to your site. You then loose all the "surrounding", like sidebar widgets that can show your commenters other information from you (not even to mention ads if you have some): last articles, last comments, links.......

Testing one thing this Disqus: can I really comment o this conversation from Disqus site rather than on my blog ?
If yes, then I do not like this: I want my traffic ;-) I joke (half), more important to me: I think my readers/commenters should have a single experience with my site. That they can track this conversation via Disqus is Ok, but commenting should stay on my site.
I think I will definitely go the coComment way: not sure if I will give them my conversation (and, actually, I do not know why I should do so), or just do the simple integration, but I will use it mainly to help my readers to track conversations on my blog.

Something strange on your blog: I found this url on Technorati: http://crrrg.com/why-i8217m-usingnbspdisqus-231...
This looks like the URL of a comment on this post, but when I click on it, I get a 404 error. Where is that coming from ?

Kiki: How do you contact coComment integration guys ? I would like to talk to them regarding my new blog.

Thanks a lot.

Interesting: what is better is Disqus compared to Wordpress commenting ? What would justify the move ?
I'm setting up my own WP blog and I do not see anything bad in WP comments: it's fast, it's reliable, it's simple.

If I get you correctly, you will be able to follow conversations you participate on a Disqus enabled blog only. What about the comments you leave on other blogs ? (still 99% of the blogs I'm afraid)
I think elpollo point is clearly that as not being a blog owner, he is interested only in the comment tracking.