Disqus - Latest Comments for eng1ne

Re: Do You Want To Have Michael Phelps Baby?

eng1ne — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:40:35 -0000

Already sold out.. I hope you got your order in! They were limited edition, apparently.

Re: Hulu Sucks Donkey Balls – So Please Stop Using It In Posts

eng1ne — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:36:29 -0000

Oh wow, check out the new theme! Good work!

Re: Disqus 2.0 WordPress plugin broken?

eng1ne — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:24:28 -0000

the advice I got was to download the very latest version of the 2.0 plugin to stop the duplication issue from continuing, and a fix for existing dupes is in the works.

http://blog.disqus.net/2008/08/13/notes-about-t...

Re: Disqus 2.0 WordPress plugin broken?

eng1ne — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:22:33 -0000

Thanks Daniel, I sent in an email and got a good reply from Jason, I think the situation is under control, and you guys have promised to help resolve the issue soon, so that's good enough for me!

Re: Disqus 2.0 WordPress plugin broken?

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:32:54 -0000

We really regret not picking up this bug before releasing the plugin, but we've located the problem and are fixing it at the moment.

If this is a huge issue at the moment, you may want to jump back onto the old plugin until the fix is pushed live. Sorry, Phil.

Re: Disqus 2.0 WordPress plugin broken?

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:52:09 -0000

Good lord!

Re: Disqus 2.0 WordPress plugin broken?

eng1ne — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:41:49 -0000

Up to over 4,000 comments in the dashboard. I'm going to have to switch back to the older plugin if this keeps up.

Re: Disqus 2.0 WordPress plugin broken?

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:03:51 -0000

That's gotta suck man :(

Re: How to Beat Louis Gray at the Early Adopter Game

http://ourdoings.com/ourdoings-startup/2008-08-11 — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:40:12 -0000

Glad you like it. One more tip: If you try it, use a large pile of photos.
One or two won't really give you the experience.

Re: rizzn's personal blog

eng1ne — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:26:15 -0000

Although my blog isn't Austin-specific, it is a social media blog and I live in Austin (well, Round Rock). http://www.scribkin.com
I'm definitely thinking of adding more regional content to it, though.

Re: louisgray.com: Disqus Takes Commenting to the Next Level

eng1ne — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:21:03 -0000

I've been running it since it was first released, installed smooth but the local message sync seems to be broken -- it is importing multiples of each message into my local WordPress message store (approx 500 messages in Disqus, now up to 2000 in WP). I have left a message on the official support forum already.

Re: How to Beat Louis Gray at the Early Adopter Game

eng1ne — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:13:31 -0000

Thanks for the OurDoings tip.. neat stuff!

Re: Disqus 2.0 WordPress plugin broken?

eng1ne — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:41:51 -0000

The Disqus plugin installed smoothly for me, but something bad is happening when it tries to sync the comments with wordpress. I am getting massive duplication of comments in Wordpress. At last count, Disqus says I have 487 comments, and WordPress Dashboard now says I have 2,755 comments.

When I look at the comments in WordPress, each one is duplicated 5, 6 or more times. And it has been growing constantly since I installed the plugin yesterday.

Re: Disqus Clout: Fail!

eng1ne — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:45:53 -0000

Well, Disqus revamped its site and WP plugin just today, so maybe they did some work on their karma system. It wouldn't surprise me.

Re: Friday Fun: New Scripts To Pimp FriendFeed & Feedly

eng1ne — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:27:42 -0000

I love it when people I follow do really cool things like Better FriendFeed! Thanks for the notice!

Re: Sharing is Caring : My Guest Post On ReadBurner

eng1ne — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:51:38 -0000

You are very welcome, Jeff!

Re: Commenting Approach

eng1ne — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:29:43 -0000

I am a registered Disqus user, and therefore I can comment here. Excellent.

Nice integration, by the way.

Re: Getting too social?

eng1ne — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:31:41 -0000

You would have to reshare them. Liking or commenting does not make them visible. I believe this is to protect syndication of non-original work to some extent. With apologies to Colin for promotion within a comment, I have a blog entry about it here.

Re: Getting too social?

http://colinwalker.me.uk/2008/07/31/getting-too-social/ — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:25:02 -0000

OK, that I didn't know. So those Tweets aren't streamed as NPRNews (Friend of ___) ? If not, do they become visible if I comment on them or "Like" them or would I have to "Reshare" them?

Re: Getting too social?

eng1ne — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:15:23 -0000

Imaginary friends can only be seen by you, so they are spam only if you consider them so.

Re: Getting too social?

eng1ne — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:13:14 -0000

Understood. I get your point, sorry if I used your post as a soap-box of my own ;). I could actually make the argument that there may be too much blow-back actually.. for example, plurk *does* tell people how to use their service, but that doesn't stop people from using it any way they like.

I think maybe the greater point is for a social service to be truly successful, it has to limit through functionality rather than rules.

Re: Getting too social?

http://colinwalker.me.uk/2008/07/31/getting-too-social/ — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:54:19 -0000

Phil,

I completely agree that those that aren't active shouldn't be listed as recommended people to follow on FriendFeed and, yes, I over-simplified your post but it is a worrying trend that people consider there should be a right or wrong way to use these services.

Re: Stop the dog-pile: freshen your cache

eng1ne — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:31:31 -0000

Right, I noticed better response times in the afternoon.. thanks for the follow-up!

Re: Getting too social?

eng1ne — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:24:25 -0000

I feel obligated to respond, since you kindly linked my article here (thank you).

Mostly, I agree with Shey's points about Steve Gillmore and FriendFeed. But further, I was dismayed because he was listed as a suggested person to follow on the service, thousands of people followed him, and had active, positive conversations on his syndicated tweets.. without any apparent interaction with the man himself. I was dismayed that he was missing out on these interactions.

As it turns out, he may not have been missing out, he did comment on the original article and said that just because he didn't reply in FriendFeed didn't mean he wasn't watching. He did not go so far as saying he was involved, just that he wasn't not involved. I suppose I could say the same thing about God.

That said, upon reflection I would say I don't have a problem with people using FriendFeed (or any other social media service) as a pure aggregator. That doesn't mean I would call them fully-engaged, though 'poser' has connotations that don't make it the best word.. let's say 'placeholder' for those accounts.

Plus, if I think further about Steve's strategy in the media, is it to interact with everyone that has something to say to him? Hardly. Conversations are happening, on FriendFeed and other service, due to his influence. Although he may not be directly involved, people are learning from each other based on his influence.

So, if the tables were turned and I suddenly had the radio show and the newspaper column and the popularity, and I was called a poser, could I refute it? No. By my own definition I'm probably a much bigger poser (outside of FriendFeed) than him. Would I care? Probably not.

Re: Stop the dog-pile: freshen your cache

http://blog.rssmeme.com/2008/07/stop-dog-pile-freshen-your-cache.html — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:56:00 -0000

Unfortunately the dog-pile effect isn't gone completely. It's still possible that it can happen and RSSmeme will be slow. My tests show that things are getting better though and the site is currently up and running.