Disqus - Latest Comments for crabasa

Re: I Haz NFL Gamepass!

crabasa — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:28:06 -0000

Yeah, I had to install Tor (http://www.torproject.org) and play around with some things (https://www.torproject.org/faq#ChooseEntryExit) to make my PC to appear to be outside of the US. I'm definitely having some problems (I get logged-out of my account frequently, since my IP tends to change) but it's worth it :)

Re: All the angst over Atom (Scripting News)

crabasa — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:07:56 -0000

I had forgotten all about ATOM! Those flame wars were legendary. Wow, what a blast from the past...

Re: My Thoughts on Posterous as a Lifestreaming Platform

crabasa — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:33:33 -0000

I completely agree. As much as I admire the product that the Postereous team has put together, I am totally baffled by the concept that it could act as a suitable replacement to FriendFeed.

Re: How to fix URL-shorteners, part II (Scripting News)

crabasa — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:31:48 -0000

But... isn't that something that a halfway decent web analytics tool could provide for retrieval of static files?

I don't mean to be a trouble-maker, but I just wonder if the "middleware" of a URL shortener is really adding that much value, given the trouble.

Re: How to fix URL-shorteners, part II (Scripting News)

crabasa — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:59:27 -0000

Dave, for those of us who don't know, can you please explain precisely what you would lose if Adjix went away? Or another way of putting it, what value do they delivery when they're up?

Re: Disqus V3 Is Live On This Blog

crabasa — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:29:54 -0000

Daniel, thanks for the reply! I would say (speaking for myself, my website and my customers) that "you must register" is indeed scary but "you must authenticate via Twitter or Facebook" is not. Now, my customers are 21-35 y/o, so maybe I'm a niche case. But I really, really want to limit comments to "real" people with "real" avatars. Just my $0.02.

Re: Disqus V3 Is Live On This Blog

crabasa — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:48:45 -0000

Well, I see why it's confusing: it doesn't remove the name/email/website fields. An ideal implementation should require authentication via the available sites (FB, OpenId, etc) first and then allow a comment to be entered. Maybe we'll see this in v3?

Re: Disqus V3 Is Live On This Blog

crabasa — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:35:30 -0000

I just scanned my settings and didn't see anything like that. Can you elaborate?

Re: Disqus V3 Is Live On This Blog

crabasa — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:17:18 -0000

This might sound crazy, but how about an option to disable "guest" comments? For certain sites, requiring a Facebook/Twitter/OpenId/etc log-in to comment isn't outrageous.

Re: Disqus V3 Is Live On This Blog

crabasa — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:04:42 -0000

I am VERY interested in this update. I've had mixed feelings using Disqus on my personal blog due to spam getting through. And this has kept me from launching it on my business' blog, despite my strong desire to give my customers a means of communicating freely via comments.

Re: Facebook acquires Friendfeed for $50 million according to the WSJ

crabasa — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:19:23 -0000

Doesn't that strike anyone as kind of low? I guess the FriendFeed guys were a million miles away from a business plan and Facebook is essentially purchasing a codebase and some of the best talent in the Valley.

Re: How to get started with Facebook's new API? (Scripting News)

crabasa — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:57:44 -0000

I spent a weekend with a group of programmers trying to spin-up a proof of concept using Facebook Connect. By the end of the weekend we had virtually nothing, and I ended up presenting a demo using a bunch of static images and JQuery magic.

The moral of the story is that developing on Facebook's platform is incredibly daunting, and I believe this has to do with their notion of "dynamic privacy". So, instead of simply sending data along a wire based on a request (REST), you have to deal with an elaborate web of hooks and callbacks. :(

Re: Engagement Photos

crabasa — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:33:26 -0000

Wow, that's a little embarrassing. :) I'm sure you're referring to Carrie. I definitely married "up".

Re: Twitter-to-FriendFeed

crabasa — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:35:12 -0000

Yeah, Twitter changed their API and now the app is broken. I don't see this getting fixed anytime soon. Sorry :(

Re: SocialDM

crabasa — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:23:39 -0000

Interesting idea. Any particular reason you want a log of your sent
messages? I almost never refer to my sent DM's in Twitter.

Re: SocialDM

crabasa — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:06:17 -0000

You know, I hadn't thought about that. I'm sort of a security nut, and I
try not to store any more information than I need to. Most of my
applications are pass-through apps, and store very little state. But I'll
think about it. You have to give the people what they want. :)

Re: Posting and Pulling Comments From FriendFeed

crabasa — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:34:37 -0000

I hope I didn't imply that I resented the improvements that you guys are making to Disqus. I love Disqus, and the sooner I can retire FF2Disqus, the better (support sucks). I just want to make sure that I understand how things work so that I can see where the gaps are between what I want as a user and what is out there being provided.

Also, FF2Disqus no longer pulls Disqus comments into FF. It's a long story. :)

Re: Posting and Pulling Comments From FriendFeed

crabasa — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:31:47 -0000

Ok, but I'm not sure you answered my question.

See the two comments below (from laibcoms and rahsheen)? They are comments on the following FF entry (http://friendfeed.com/e/4dc2f737-4dca-e237-c647...) which in turn points back to Daniel Ha's blog post (http://obscurelyfamous.com/post/73400413/postin...). So, why are those comments showing up rather than there?

Re: Posting and Pulling Comments From FriendFeed

crabasa — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:16:36 -0000

One of the problems I ran into was the concept that multiple "entries" in FriendFeed could point back to a single Disqus thread. For instance, I came to this page from this link: http://friendfeed.com/e/406bbf03-b754-1cf4-31a8... and this entry had a couple of comments, none of which is showing up below in FF section. More oddly, there is a comment below from @laibcoms that doesn't exist on the entry a linked to.

One question I have: are these new, special FF comments going to be available for reading and writing via the API?

Re: Disqus Enables FriendFeed Sync

crabasa — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:16:42 -0000

Wait, are they saying that they're going to sync both ways?? I'm not sure how that would work (coming from first-hand experience). I'll be curious to see!

Re: A new way of linking in tweets (Scripting News)

crabasa — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:04:09 -0000

My first thought when I saw this post was that you were trying to find a way to let Twitter clients know what kind of content was being linked to in the short-urls so that they could provide a richer UI (ie. [mp3|http://bit.ly/link]). Do you see any merit in that, or is it better let the "item" component be anything the user likes?

Re: FriendFeed/Disqus Comment Sync v0.1

crabasa — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:47:17 -0000

It's going really well, feel free to check it out!

Re: FF2Disqus v0.3

crabasa — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:24:11 -0000

Not exactly. FF2Disqus links the comments made on "your" entries on FF with
entries posted to sites (blogs/etc) that you control and have installed
Disqus on. That is why, when you set it up, you have to match-up a Disqus
site with one of your numerous FF services. This is how FF2Disqus knows
what entries to scan for new comments and what resulting Disqus site to copy
them to.

Does that make sense?

Re: ~(b[oris]log) - [T]he US wanted to see the outcome of the Egyptian...

crabasa — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:22:18 -0000

Haha! Success!

Re: FriendFeed/Disqus Comment Sync v0.2

crabasa — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:21:15 -0000

http://friendfeed.com/e/d63943a9-c60a-4ff6-9bc8...