Moved my 41400 Comments into Disqus

April 22, 2009 · Comments

Disqus Boy, was I freaked out about not wanting to implement a new comment system on my blog. I have over 41,000 comments here. Do you think I want to lose even one precious word you’ve written back to me over the years? No. That’s the short answer. So I have put off moving to a commenting platform for a long time.

I’ll be honest, what got me to convert was that Giannii from Disqus did the conversion for me while I squirmed and winced and looked between splayed fingers, hoping against hope that it would go okay.

And now? It’s over. I’m there. I’m on their commenting platform.

But why? WordPress has a perfectly good commenting system. The answer is two fold: flexibility and searchability. The tools allow users and me to do more with commenting, and they also make it much easier to search the comments and for the comments to be found floating out on other platforms for better discovery.

I’m excited. I’m in. I’m happy with the service and with Giannii’s (and team’s) help.

Worth a look-see.

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    . Yea, I know it doesn't take long to enter a name, password and website but every second and every click counts when you go to many blogs Business Blog to comment...I hope you got the implementation tips you were looking around!
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    seriously, that is a lot of commenting.
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    I like Disqus but me and my friend's sites dont have 40k comments lol. You must have been an active person gathering that kind of feedback :D
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  • Hola Chris, you do a first class job with everything, including the new comments system. I have learned a lot by following you, and will probably follow you to Disqus. Thanks.
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  • I'm using this Disqus Comments tool also, its really easy and customized, i loved it! Nice tools for blogger, especially it has a signed "D" hahaha ^_^ Cheeerrs!
  • if the guests are not Disqus account,how to move they comments?
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    I have recently migrated it to the Thesis template, and made a tighter integration with the corresponding http://ambtenaar20.ning.com community site.

    The next step is moving to http://www.disqus.com, Disqus.com is still not that widely used in the Netherlands; but I think this will change this year.

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  • After reading this article almost a month ago I went back to read it again and decided to make the move, why not? I have no more than 50 comments. I sign up and installed it on both of my blogs this morning with no problems at all!.

    I'm starting to discover the possibilities and the nice things you can do now with it, and I'm 100% with "paisano" regarding that having now an account in Disqus encouraged me to post my first comment on your blog!, imagine now the rest of the blogs with Disqus!

    I love it!, thanks again for another amazing article, down to earth to that a lot of people understand it.
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    But problem is I cant move my 2000 comments. At Advanced page i see only Error status message.
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