Introducing the New DISQUS


With this latest update, we are making Disqus easier, faster, and more portable. Simple enough, right? Let’s begin.
DISQUS
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Portable

WordPress Plugin 2.0

We’ve been working on improving integration with platforms. Available now, the new WordPress-Disqus plugin 2.0 features the following:

  • Comments are indexable by search engines (SEO-friendly)
  • Export and import of comments
  • Automatic synchronization between Disqus.com and your WordPress comments
  • Uses the new Disqus API
  • Moderate/administer your blog right from the WordPress admin

This update makes it easier than ever to try Disqus out.

Note about import: Comments imported into Disqus will be initially unclaimed. People can merge these comments with their Disqus profiles simply by claiming the comments.

The WordPress plugin is just one of the first uses of our new, revamped APIs, which we built to open Disqus up to developers. There are currently some developers using our API for custom integrations or connecting web applications with the Disqus network. We are still polishing up our public documentation, but they will be available soon.

Faster

Disqus now has a new look. The look itself isn’t faster — it’s accessing your stuff that is now speedier. The entire interface was retooled to improve how you use Disqus. Not only is using Disqus faster, we’ve worked on making the entire service quicker. We know many people trust our service to be fast and reliable so we spent some time making sure we’re delivering on this.

The New Homepage for Commenters

The new Disqus homepage is completely focused on you, the commenter. From the homepage, you are able to view your and friends’ comments, track replies, and manage everything from a single interface.

Adding and Following Friends

Following people’s comments has been improved. On someone’s profile, click “Follow”. You can view view all of your friends’ comments by toggling the button on the homepage.

Easier

New Admin Interface for Bloggers

Publishers, bloggers, or website owners have a hard job. The new Admin interface makes it much easier to moderate commenters and administer settings. We feel that the new Disqus.com is much more useful; we hope you take a look around and will agree with us.

Comment Blogs

Disqus also has new profiles for commenters. While familiar, the new profiles have one big difference: we’re treating them as comment-blogs. Many people don’t have a blog, but comment regularly all over the place. A comment blog is their place to collect and show off their thoughts. We have big plans for this, including customization.

Welcome

With 30,000 websites signed up, this network of connected, cross-platform discussions has been growing faster than ever. We intend for Disqus to grow alongside the great communities it’s helping bring together.

So, welcome to the new DISQUS.

Jobs

Disqus is hiring. We’re looking for smart developers to help take Disqus and online discussion to the next steps. If you’d like to join a fun, small and growing startup in San Francisco, send us your resume or portfolio to jobs@disqus.com.

View Comments

Daniel on August 12th 2008 in disqus

  • I really like Disqus its very easy to implement, and for your readers use.
  • Disqus is top of the line commenting software. I am installing it on all my blogs.
  • IPO
    I would like to add it in my blog if there was an option to change the links to do follow, I uninstalled just because all of them were no follow.
  • Thanks for sharing
  • I use a sociable, whether it is useful?
  • Looking at deploying this for commenting across all enclave blogs
  • prasadgupte
    Is there a demo?
  • "Esto es una prueba de comentario"
    What language ?


    My blog
    Stop Dreaming Start Action
  • Esto es una prueba de comentario
  • happykaka
    Where can I download the plugin and How can I publish blog on this site?
  • I'm also concerned that my commenters (and myself!) no longer have the ability to edit comments. I hope this is a feature that will be implemented in 2.0.1.I'm getting dangerously close to hitting the Uninstall button. The lack of adequate (or easy to find) documentation to continue showing earlier comments is frustrating to say the least.
  • you are told us here "not introducing the new disqus" but it's name is "THE NEW DISGUSTING INTRODUCTION",THANX FOR THAT
  • I tried installing Disqus, but had to remove it because it doesn't support more than once instance of itself per page! The blog platform I'm using (Business Catalyst) allows only one post to be showed per page, but then the "recent posts" menu still causes Disqus to misbehave on clicked-to pages.
  • This seems to be a very nice application that could be of great use for searchers like us. It has great features, I would love to register on this site.
  • dutchx5
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  • Nice and intresting post
  • I cannot deny that Disqus are impressive.Having a website that doesn't take comments lightly,giving full support to user that have difficulties integrating and providing lots of other features that are simply there to magnify the usability of your blog. Impressed totally!
  • ryanlow
    Being able to moderate or administer our blog right from Wordpress admin, really makes it easier and faster. Dislike the need to open a new window to check status of comments and etc. Will start to explore more on other added features.
  • jonaw
    Disqus has the simplest interface which is a good news as it is user-friendly,neat and there are numerous guides to teach us on installation, etc.

    Apart of the above, I felt that Disqus should have more features implemented such as the number of comments commented, the day and date that the comment is written etc..
    This are some of my thoughts and hope that it will be taken into considerations.
  • Janliao
    I have utilized it myself and is very satisfied in the way Disqus brings out all the features.Great one.
  • I have just heard about disqus and I really think this is the coolest thing.
  • Hi, um, I just noticed when trying out my blog in Safari under OS X, and not being logged into my WP dashboard there, that the comment fields were all filled out with the details of one of my regular commentators. Name AND email address. And this person lives 250 miles away, so has never been near my computer. Does this happen all the time, because as I'm usually logged in, I wouldn't know. But once is enough.

    Please explain how this happened, and what steps you've taken to stop it happening again. I have a responsibility to my site visitors to protect their personal data. And so do you.

    I've been with Disqus a matter of weeks only, moving from IntenseDebate because I liked what I saw here. But if this happens just once, it's reason to doubt my decision. And if this means my commentator's name and email address were available around the world to anyone, then I have inadvertently opened him or her up to all manner of spam and abuse. Yeah. Thanks Disqus!

    So please, let me know what's happening. ASAP.
  • Uff.. I'm getting lost with this sudden growth of ways to login.
  • Is this iminlikewithyou?
  • I am a bit late here but I must comment you guys for doing a great job of constantly moving Disqus to the next level.
  • AartHilal
    Testing
  • Excellent version, thanks.
  • We have been hearing much about Disqus, comparing it against IntenseDebate, i guess it is a better choice to use Disqus for our new blog.
  • this version is great. Thanks!
  • SEO
    I am a proud new member of Disqus. Adding the plugin to our corporate blog. Hopefully management of comment spammers will be much easier from now.
    Rif Chia
  • Hey Rif, I got it installed on my blog too. Working quite nicely till date. Show you when back in office.
  • These are awesome features and absolutely something that will improve Disqus as a serivce!
    Now if only we could get these v2 features in the Movable Type plugin as well...
  • Mike Patch
    Wow thanks for this new version
  • The folks at Disqus are doing a good job. Way to go Daniel Ha. :-)
  • Michael
    Yup I think that diqus is great platform, thanks to you developer team
  • Just want to share that the new version rocks.
  • Disqus update- Like the new member profile page. Tracking replies with the new design is fun. Glad I added it to my blogspot blog.
  • I'm late! Is the job vacancy still open?
  • pcngocquy
    yeah! it's so great
  • So does one need to periodically visit the comment claim URL (http://disqus.com/claim) in order to claim comments from other blogs, as other bloggers import WordPress comments into Disqus with the new plugin? I think some sort of notification system should be implmented to inform Disqus users that an import has taken place. Disqus already has user email addresses in the system. As long as it is a unique field (i.e. no other users are using the same email address) it should be simple enough to identify matches within the system as the import takes place and send a notification to the imported comment author.
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