Reblog: Comments Can Be Blog Posts

New feature: Add your blogs and start reblogging comments on Disqus.

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Comments Can Be Blog Posts

We think so too.

A lot of great conversation goes on in comments that shouldn’t be stuck behind the fold. Publishing these back to traditional blogs is a great way to bring attention to great content. It needs to happen more often.

That’s why we’ve been trying to make it even easier.

Announcing Reblogging on DISQUS

Now on comments throughout DISQUS, you can find a reblog link where you can publish a quotation of the comment to your blog. This quote is cited with the original author, the blog where it originally appeared, and a link back to the original comment to give the discussion full context.

At the moment, we’re supporting publishing to Wordpress, Movable Type, TypePad, and Tumblr with more platforms to come.

So next time you see a comment that everyone really needs to read, give it a whirl. We’re excited to see more good content bubble to the surface.

Originally posted as a comment by Devin on A VC using Disqus.

Daniel on August 25th 2008 in disqus

  • Is there an easy way for the person who wrote the original comment to get notification that their comment was reblogged
  • Yah! They should get an email, just like other comments & replies. Then they should be able to reply via email and make a comment on the reblog. The whole blog content should get in the email, which I suppose complicates matters because things like this video won't show up.

    Awesome feature.
  • good idea
  • ohknan
    now that too has me thinking again... how do i know that the name hasn't bin changed i mean really we all
    happen to use the same letters in words,, its all on a form of ply wood or saw dust first no see how it made it long long ago see do you apply eye's first or first eye... no more needs to be said lost the other i
  • great idea! is there a certain points or say a reward if you lots of takers or many users reblog your comment?


    make wine at home
  • Great idea! Too often I'll start to respond to a post, and then think "I want this on my blog!". This will likely have me mining disqus a bit more now!
  • FloMo1981
    The reblogging feature does not seem to work with Tumblr.

    I always get an internal error.
  • girk
    Is it an internal error from Disqus or Tumblr?
  • FloMo1981
    Seems to be an internal error from Disqus. When I try to add my Tumblr Account to the reblog settings, it says Internal error and I have the option to save again or cancel (if I remember correctly).

    When I click on repost within the comments section and try to insert my account details there, a page shows up, which says something like 'An error has occured. It's not your fault, we are working on it.'
  • Does this still occur now?
  • FloMo1981
    yeah still occurs, no change there :(.
  • I saw this implemented while reading a comment from our blog and quickly checked here. Awesome feature!!

    (b2evolution support please hehe :p - btw, if it's using the common XML-RPC, b2evo uses it also, it can also use MT and WP's ;) )
  • I wish i could find a Disqus plugin for b2evolution :)
  • ooh, another blogger who is a b2evolution'er.

    Yah, it's better to have a plugin than the JavaScript method. it will also help in increasing the adaptation of Disqus - it's always raised = plug-n-play + SEO-indexing of comments.

    I hope the Disqus team migrated their latest WP plugin to b2evo, since the two are closely related than MT, Drupal, and Typepad :p
  • Ryo
    Another b2evolution user here :)
    I really would like a plugin.
    But anyone now how to integrate that Javascript thing in b2evo? The templates are kind of weird.
  • I'm not familiar with b2evo myself. Hopefully someone else out there
    does.
  • Ryo
    I did it. Although I have some problems, it works. The templates are weird in b2evo.
    Still, a plugin would be much better, especially for search engines.
  • Seriously, wtf is beanieville doing in the video? I thought he was too tied up buying solars... ;)
  • Great idea, I will have to have a play, see how well it works with Drupal.
  • Nice work guys... this is a great feature. Like Bijan, I'd like an email notification option. Also, I still think the attribution link should point to the commenter's site by default, not their Disqus profile. Links are the currency of the web. The commenter should be rewarded with some link love. Sure, the person reblogging can edit the link if they want, but I doubt anyone will do that. Lastly, why don't I see a reblog option on the comment for this post?
  • While reblog is live on Disqus, we are still waiting to update the WordPress plugin that features the option. It'll be here shortly.
  • That is a really cool feature.
  • I have been waiting for this for 3 years... was wondering when someone was going to make it simple - kudos
  • Soooooooolid. :)
  • Le sigh, per my comment on Fred's original post, there's more to this than just reblogging. Reblogging takes context and moves it, which doesn't help anyone since very, very few comments are self-contained. It's better than nothing, but that's about it.

    Hopefully see you guys at BWE.
  • I'm looking forward to seeing how people reblog comments. I'm positive we'll have a better idea on where to take it from there.

    But for now, just taking experimental steps. That's the beauty of the web. We can do that and still make quick improvements.
  • Nice. Glad to see this new functionality. See you guys on Wednesday night.
  • That was pretty cool!
  • Sounds cool.
  • It'll be interesting to see how this gets used. I was going to "reblog" Daniel's comment about not being sure where its going to go, but the link isn't on this blog!?
  • cool feature. One suggestion: Can we have the link to Devin's blog instead of his Disqus profile in the line "Originally posted as a comment by Devin on A VC using Disqus."
  • You can change the text or link to anything you'd like when you click
    reblog.
  • Great new feature. This is what many users have been waiting for.
  • A suggestion for Disqus; emoticons! Maybe this has been suggested before, and maybe some of you don't like it, but I'm a fan of emoticons in comments and posts. Just to set the mood of a line of comment. I think it must be easy to implement But as I said; it's a suggestion...
    [edit]
    Never mind, found were I needed to post this :$
  • Like your suggestion. Emoticons is great! People are now using smiley in most of their comments. Hope disqus will have this feature soon.
  • Just a quick note that if you're using Drupal, Disqus Reblogging works if you have the Blog API module enabled.
  • Thanks for making the plugins. I sure do appreciate it.
  • Great work, guys. I originally thought reblog means it'll erase our blog.
  • Very cool feature and I agree the original blogger should somehow get notifcation
  • I like this new features. Very useful!
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