Disqus - Latest Comments for mkoenig

Re: No more IntenseDebate for me too - even my patience level has gone!

mkoenig — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:28:25 -0000

We recently released a new version of our plugin that has corrected this issue (v2.1.1). I would love it if you gave ID another try. Please feel free to drop me a line with any questions.

Re: No more IntenseDebate for me too - even my patience level has gone!

mkoenig — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:26:08 -0000

I'm sorry to hear this. We're currently implementing some changes to our db's that are greatly improving performance. We hope to see you again in the future!

Re: IntenseDebate Plugins: Blog Comments as a Platform

mkoenig — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:32:26 -0000

You can also check out our blog - http://blog.intensedebate.com and test out our plugins.

Re: IntenseDebate sucks - lost more than 200 comments!

mkoenig — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:31:40 -0000

I apologize for the inconvenience. There was a bug in the importer around 25 days ago that has since been fixed. I'd love it if you could give IntenseDebate another try. In the least, please give the import another try so we can get you all of your comments. Then if you'd like you can uninstall IntenseDebate and go with whichever comment system you prefer.

Again I apologize for the frustration. Please feel free to email me.

Michael Koenig
IntenseDebate

Re: What’s the difference between user generated content and user generated rubbish? Comments please…

mkoenig — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:47:04 -0000

Hi Bob. Thanks for dropping me a line about your post and for including IntenseDebate in your assessment.

IntenseDebate is all about making comments useful and bringing valuable comments into the forefront. Our comment voting and user reputations are one of the ways we do this - it's one of our solutions to help you cut through the comment noise and bad poetry and help you easily find quality comments made by credible commenters.

IntenseDebate commenter reputations are based on the number of comments made, but more importantly the number of times their comments are voted as being worthwhile or not. Each commenter's reputation is immediately visible and is located right next to their avatar so you don't have to go digging around to find it. The comment rank is just to the right of the reputation. Add in our filters to sort the highest rated comments to the top and IntenseDebate makes it a piece of cake to find the good stuff.

Our reputation system will be getting a major overhaul based on our community's feedback sent to us directly and voiced in our Get Satisfaction forum. We've always got our ears open.

In regards to your concern about IntenseDebate being an Automattic Joint now, rest assured IntenseDebate will always be platform agnostic. The only things that have changed (among others) are that our system is more secure and scales better than ever, we can guarantee that we're not going anywhere, and we've got some really innovative enhancements coming down the line with other Automattic products! Add access to a massive userbase and it's a great time to give IntenseDebate a try.

Thanks again!

Re: Disqus Gives Spammers A DoFollow Thanksgiving Feast

mkoenig — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:21:39 -0000

I hope you don't mind me hopping in here. IntenseDebate supports nofollow. With our WordPress plugin we output the WordPress comments in the noscript tag so if you had nofollow prior to IntenseDebate it will still be nofollow.

Re: IntenseDebate

mkoenig — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:52:58 -0000

Thanks Andrew. I appreciate it. Please keep me posted.

Re: IntenseDebate

mkoenig — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:13:36 -0000

I'm sorry to hear that you ran into theme issues with ID. I'm happy to help troubleshoot any theme issues if you'd be willing to reinstall IntenseDebate. Please let me know.

Re: IntenseDebate

mkoenig — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:11:18 -0000

Andrew, we have identified the issue with the importer and have applied a fix. Is there any chance that you would be willing to give IntenseDebate another try? Please feel free to drop me a note with any questions.

Re: Intense Debate Part II

mkoenig — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:34:03 -0000

That's very strange Randy. We don’t touch the .htaccess file. We might generate a little bit of load during the import, but it's not anything significant or severe.

While I don't really know what happened exactly, it's extremely unlikely that ID was responsible for the issues with the .htaccess file as we never use it or touch it.

Re: Intense Debate Part II

mkoenig — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:20:14 -0000

Randy, what do you mean exactly by your blog being down? We have had no down time. Was there an extended load time? Please let me know. Again, the plugin is in the beta stages, so we'd love to know about any bugs that you encounter so that we can improve it.

Thanks!

Re: Intense Debate

mkoenig — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:43:17 -0000

Thanks for the info Randy and thanks for emailing. We'll get this taken care of.

Thanks for your patience.

Re: Intense Debate

mkoenig — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:21:51 -0000

Randy, I'm sorry to hear that you ran into issues with IntenseDebate. What was the issue? We'd love to get it taken care of.

Kind regards,
Michael
IntenseDebate

Re: Automattic buys blog comment plugin Intense Debate

mkoenig — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:30:32 -0000

Chris, we've got an awesome new IntenseDebate WordPress plugin coming just around the corner. I'd love to send it your way when it's ready so that you can get a chance to check it out. Please give me a shout if you're interested.

Re: Automattic buys blog comment plugin Intense Debate

mkoenig — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:26:38 -0000

Thanks for the write-up. We're extremely excited to join the Automattic team!

As you mentioned, IntenseDebate is back in a temporary beta while we ramp up our hardware and get our ducks in a row. When we go live you can expect IntenseDebate to be quicker and offer a more robust feature set. We will continue to improve our service for all blog platforms including Blogger, Typepad, Movable Type, Tumblr, and others with more on the way. You can look forward to advanced integrations with other Automattic joints like Gravatar, Akismet, and of course WordPress.

Having the opportunity to reach millions of blogs is a dream! Now is the perfect time to give IntenseDebate a try on your blog or website. You can expect more readers to already have IntenseDebate accounts and you will be able to comment on more blogs than you can imagine. Check out http://intensedebate.com for more info.

Thanks again for helping us spread the word!
Michael Koenig and the Fellas at IntenseDebate

Re: Getting to Know Intense Debate

mkoenig — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:35:09 -0000

Will do Lawrence. I'll keep you posted.

Re: Getting to Know Intense Debate

mkoenig — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:26:39 -0000

Lawrence, thanks for taking the time to explore IntenseDebate. The best way to get acquainted with it is to dive in and give it a try on your blog! Our simple install process makes it easy to get IntenseDebate up and running on your blog. We're pleased to offer excellent Typepad integration as can be seen on Don Dodge's blog.

I would love it if you gave us a try here on your blog. Please feel free to email me at support@intensedebate.com with any questions.

Cheers,
Michael Koenig
IntenseDebate

Re: Come On Disqus, Don't Make Me Hate You

mkoenig — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:52:43 -0000

Darren, I hope you don't mind me jumping in here, but I want to give you the heads-up on IntenseDebate threaded comments (http://intensedebate.com). We've got an incredibly intuitive UI and we have integrated OpenID into our service. We've got a ton of additional features that I'm happy to chat about if you have any questions. Feel free to email me. Again, I apologize for the intrusion.

Cheers,
Michael Koenig
IntenseDebate
support@intensedebate.com

Re: Comment Portability: The Commenting Standard of the Future

mkoenig — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:10:56 -0000

An update for anyone interested: we've identified why Shey was receiving these email notifications and have corrected the issue.

Re: Comment Portability: The Commenting Standard of the Future

mkoenig — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:14:39 -0000

Ok. thanks Shey. I'll get to the bottom of this. I'll keep you posted.

Sorry about taking over your comment section here. I'm more than willing to keep the conversation going here (especially to keep anyone interested in the loop, since it pertains to comment portability), but I'd completely understand if you'd prefer to move this conversation from your blog to email in order to spare your readers. Please let me know and feel free to email.

Re: Comment Portability: The Commenting Standard of the Future

mkoenig — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:04:12 -0000

Thanks for letting me know Shey. In your IntenseDebate profile (http://intensedebate.com/editprofile) have you selected the "Pull in comments made on my blog posts in FriendFeed" check box?

Re: Comment Portability: The Commenting Standard of the Future

mkoenig — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:14:24 -0000

Thanks Shey (and thanks for correcting my link...fat finger slip, these things happen).

Re: Comment Portability: The Commenting Standard of the Future

mkoenig — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:18:27 -0000

Shey, Corvida - I hope you don't mind me jumping in here. This is one of our goals at IntenseDebate. We get that having your content spread across a ton of different services is a pain. It would be awesome if all of your content was in one place regardless of which service you use to post it. This topic is definitely on our minds.

This is one of the goals of our FriendFeed integration. We're striving to give you the tools to aggregate your content in cooperation with other 3rd party services so that you're comments are available regardless of which service you use to post it. Whether this is something that we do in-house or something that we work on with our good friends over at Gnip (http://gnnipcentral.com) is still getting hashed out. BTW - check out GNIP. They just launched last week and we're extremely excited about our partnership with our good buddies down the street from us. Keep an eye on them...they're going to change everything.

It should be pretty exciting to see the future of content aggregation. We'll get there!

Cheers,
Michael Koenig
IntenseDebate

Re: To Comment or Not to Comment

mkoenig — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:45:20 -0000

Shey, excellent post. It's helpful to know how you comment across the web using various services. I want to give you the heads-up on some enhancements to our IntenseDebate/FriendFeed integration. Comments you make in FriendFeed will sync with your IntenseDebate profile and comment history. This feature isn't live yet (and no one else knows about it), but we will be rolling it out either this week or next week. I'll keep you posted.

Cheers,
Michael Koenig
IntenseDebate

Re: Why I Intensely Debated But Decided to Disqus

mkoenig — Mon, 19 May 2008 12:38:53 -0000

You should expect groundbreaking innovations from Intense Debate - you'll be blown away soon enough. We hope to have you back - as Rob said, I wouldn't count us out just yet!