gReader: Comment on blogs with Disqus from within Google Reader

I personally use my mail client (Apple Mail) to read my RSS subscriptions. It’s convenient, but it’s also not the best feed reader in existence. It seems to me that most people are using Google Reader instead, which I have been intending to switch to for some time now.

This week, I’ve found the perfect reason to make the jump. Paul Arterburn just released the new version of his excellent Firefox plugin, gReader. This plugin allows you to discuss any item right from Google Reader. gReader cleverly uses Disqus to achieve this.

If the blog uses the Disqus comment system, it will share the same discussion thread as well. Also available on the website are bookmarklets that let you join discussions on any page, whether it has a comment thread or not. Very cool.

Give gReader a try if you are a Google Reader user. Or just use the bookmarklets. Me? I’m going to start using Google Reader to so I can use gReader with Disqus.

(more screenshots after the jump)





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Daniel on April 2nd 2008 in disqus

  • Nice guy
  • i agree with you opinion this really works great................
  • i agree with you opinion this really works great................
  • i agree with you opinion this really works great................
  • Alisha D Herron
    nice article! nice site. you're in my rss feed now ;-)
    keep it up
  • I am loving Disqus because the development team constantly come up with new features every now and then. Thanks.
  • I am loving Disqus because the development team constantly come up with new features every now and then. Thanks.
  • I am loving Disqus because the development team constantly come up with new features every now and then. Thanks.
  • menaice
  • menaice
  • menaice
  • custom
    very nice!
  • custom
    very nice!
  • custom
    very nice!
  • This is the first I hear about gReader and it's quite impressive — thanks for sharing the info!
  • B42
    Quite Nifty :)
  • B42
    Quite Nifty :)
  • This is cool! I'm commenting from gReader.
  • This is definitely a great attribute. I will be sure to implement this with my google reader.
  • This is definitely a great attribute. I will be sure to implement this with my google reader.
  • thanks interesting, paul. please do!
  • Palluxo
    Why don't you try Feedburner?
    It's also owned by Google.

    Daniel
    http://www.palluxo.com
  • I'm using feedburner on my comments feed from Disqus because I have a feedflare I put together that let's me join the conversation on my iphone. I'll share my feedflares on the gReader site once I do a little testing on them.
  • thanks interesting, paul. please do!
  • I've been around the blogosphere alot and I'm coming across disqus alot. Thought I'd give it a try... and anything to do with GooglReader is definitely worth it!
  • I just updated the extension to pull in any comments from any site using Disqus. This should make it a lot easier to join the conversation.
  • Guys,

    Just wanted to top by and thank you for a great job you have done. I trying to get all my blogs integrated with Disqus and will be encouraging my readers to do the same. Or at least the one's that are bloggers.

    I wish though there was a way to integrate Disqus on every post of a blog, without hiding the existent comments. Right now I only let Disqus manage the comments on all the future posts or the posts that had zero comments.

    Thanks again! Glad to see the all the new features popping up!
  • Good example of how well-done integration motivates people to use the products that work well with the other tools they already use. :)
  • Good example of how well-done integration motivates people to use the products that work well with the other tools they already use. :)
  • Hi Daniel,

    Try NetNewsWire on your Mac to read RSS news. I have tried all kinds, from Google Reader to Vienna. However NetNewsWire (which has been free for a while) is the best.

    Cheers,
    Alpay
  • Hi Daniel,

    Try NetNewsWire on your Mac to read RSS news. I have tried all kinds, from Google Reader to Vienna. However NetNewsWire (which has been free for a while) is the best.

    Cheers,
    Alpay
  • This is indeed very nicely done. I have one question: I look at the API and it was not clear to me how given a blog post URL, an application could get the list of posts. The API talks about forum id, message id, etc.. Is there an endpoint in the API which given a post URL (example: http://www.loiclemeur.com/france/2008/04/plus-didees-aut.html ) would return me a JSON representation of the list of comments posted for that entry? (or alternatively, the URL of the iframe we could embed)
    Thank you!
  • I actually don't use the API to display actual comments...I use the default Javascript code provided by Disqus and tweak the variables to get what I want. The disqus_url is the variable of the exact blog post page that is tied to comments. The tough part is checking each page for the Disqus comment system and grabbing the forum_id. This is the part I have hard-coded for now for a few select major blogs.

    http://reader.disqus.com/greader_comments/#comment-297528
  • This is indeed very nicely done. I have one question: I look at the API and it was not clear to me how given a blog post URL, an application could get the list of posts. The API talks about forum id, message id, etc.. Is there an endpoint in the API which given a post URL (example: http://www.loiclemeur.com/france/2008/04/plus-d... ) would return me a JSON representation of the list of comments posted for that entry? (or alternatively, the URL of the iframe we could embed)
    Thank you!
  • If only it could import the blogs existing comments as well, it would be an in-blog comment killer!
  • I just updated the extension to pull in any comments from any site using Disqus. This should make it a lot easier to join the conversation.
  • That's the only thing holding me back from integrating Disqus...
  • Very nice -- just what I've been complaining about for a while...the inability to readily comment on something from *within* my favorite RSS reader.
  • If only it could import the blogs existing comments as well, it would be an in-blog comment killer!
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