We began our Facebook Connect integration with our announcement last week. Tonight, all websites using Disqus now have the option to enable Facebook Connect.

If you’ve already added your Facebook API Key to Disqus, note that you will also need to add your Facebook Secret Key as well to complete the integration. You can do this on the Admin/Settings page.

Bug Report: You may receive an error in Safari when commenting with Facebook Connect. We’ve identified a bug with the handling of third party cookies on Facebook Connect & Disqus.

The workaround is to go to Safari’s Preferences and change Accept Cookies to “Always.”

Most of us are iPhone fans here at Disqus. While it is simple to moderate incoming comments on the phone with Disqus’ email notifications (just respond with delete, approve, or spam), sometimes we pined for a better mobile interface to do some heavy moderating.

Tonight, we’re releasing the beta version of Disqus mobile for the iPhone. This is an iPhone interface for moderating unapproved and spam comments on your sites.

Just point mobile Safari to http://m.disqus.net and log into your Disqus account. From there, just select the site that you’d like to moderate.

You can view two comment queues: All and Spam. You can toggle this in the upper right-hand corner.

To perform an action, just slide your finger across a comment to view the options. You can also perform bulk moderation actions by selecting multiple comments then scrolling down to the bottom of the screen for options.

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We pushed a new admin feature tonight that gives site owners more control over who gets to post comments. By default, anyone can leave an unclaimed comment or with a registered Disqus account. You were also able to choose to only allow registered Disqus users to leave a comment.

Now, you can also choose to only allow Disqus users with a verified email address. This is ideal for sites that want the most administrative control over the participants of the discussion.

You can view the option on the Admin/Permissions page (screenshot below).

Facebook Connect is new technology that allows websites and blogs to plug into the Facebook platform. This holiday season, Disqus will enable all websites with Disqus-powered comments to easily integrate with Facebook Connect.

Wait a tick… What does that mean?

• Commenters can login using their Facebook profiles
• Comments post to the Facebook news feed

Facebook Connect isn’t completely live on Disqus yet, but you can get started right now. Website owners should enter a Facebook API key on their settings page. This will turn on Facebook Connect support for your site when it’s ready. We will begin enabling Facebook Connect for sites with API keys in place.

The wait is almost over! By the end of 2008, everyone will be able to have Facebook Connect integrated with Disqus. Be sure to add your Facebook API key in your settings and when we launch you’ll be ready.

If you do not already have a Facebook API key, the best way (right now) is to fill out a “Create Application” form and use http://disqus.com/ as the Callback URL.

In addition to Connect initial support, look forward to more features such as account-linking, friend-finding, and more goodness in the future.

For all the Graffiti CMS users, one of our community members Scott Watermasysk has written a small guide on how to integrate DISQUS. 

There are just a couple steps for standard Graffiti themes:

1. Sign up for a new account on Disqus and create a new website. Click the link for “generic code”. (also located here)
2. In your Graffiti control panel, navigate to your “Personalize” page (Graffiti-Admin > Presentation > Themes > YOUR_THEME).
3. In your post.view file, remove the existing comment rendering code and replace it with the JavaScript from step one from the generic code page above.
4. In your index.view file, find the $macros function for building a comment link and change the fragment from “comment” to “disqus_thread”.
5. In your layout.view file add the JavaScript from step three in the generic code page.

With this information, in step three from above instead of removing the comment list and form from my post.view, I wrapped it in an if statement like this:

#if($post.Id > 143)

[Your Existing Comment Code]

#else

[Your Diqus Code]

#end

For full instructions visit  simpable.com/code/disqus/. 

Thanks Scott!

DISQUS is now translated in the following languages. All thanks to all our generous volunteer translators:

• English
  
• Danish provided by Mikkel Høgh
• French provided by Jonathan Belgourari, help from Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry
• German (formal) provided by Konstantin Klein
• German (informal) provided by Konstantin Klein
• Italian provided by Dass
• Japanese provided by Megumi Kawahata
• Latvian provided by Normunds
• Portuguese (Brazil) provided by Niva
• Russian provided by urbansheep and Ruslan Grokhovetskiy
• Spanish (Mexico) provided by Daniel B,  help from Guillermo Esteves
• Spanish (Spain) provided by Jordi Soler
• Swedish provided by Joakim Jardenberg and Gustav Holmström
• Turkish provided by Saner Apaydın

Keep the following details in mind as well:

• Not yet available for the WordPress plugin.
• Translations are only on embedded threads, though we will translate more with your help.
• If you see any language errors or something just does not seem right, feel free to email translation@disqus.com.

Sukhjit (pronounced sook-jeet) is an online video producer that video blogs about her life adventures, gadgets, production, community, family, fruit, chocolate, and Bhangra. She uses DISQUS to interface with her community and has a successful following.

Q. Why does she have a successful following?

DISQUS allows Sukhjit to have threaded conversations with notifications. Notifications help keep track of current and old conversations, whilst the threaded conversations keep it organized. Outside of her normal video posting, she also utilizes video comments (powered by Seesmic) to engage her audience.

To learn more about Sukhjit, check out her site or her DISQUS profile.

The conversation below is about a decision on what pair of glasses to buy.

We are preparing to launch our international version of Disqus, and need a couple fluent Internet-savvy people to give it a once-through.

Our current translations consist of the following:

• Portuguese
• German
• Spanish
• French
• Italian
• Japanese
• Latvian
• Russian
• Turkish

If you are fluent in any of the above languages and have a couple minutes to spare. Shoot an email to andrew@disqus.com for instructions to test our translated interface.

Thanks!

Giannii

Community Manager

Tonight we implemented our some new spam moderation functions and this is how it works.

• Approve: Makes comment visible and confirms it is not spam.
• Mark Spam: Alerts the spam system that the comment is spam.
• Delete: Removes the comment without notifying the spam system.

Also if you receive comment notifications by email, you can email reply approve or spam.

It’s pretty easy and will help reduce the recent spam we have been experiencing.

Hey Gang,

There are some new features that we are rolling out over the next couple of weeks and here are a  few to get your feet wet.

• Improved Spam Filters & Reporting
  The ability to mark spam and a more refined spam filtering system. I know we have had a couple days of spam and this will help solve it.

• Internationalization
  For starters we will have German, Spanish, French, Russian, and Italian translations. Is there a language you’re fluent in not listed here? If you have a spare moment and would like to help translate. Feel free to shoot an email to help@disqus.com for more instructions.

• New Plugins
  Movable type and Drupal plugins.

• Updated Commenting Interface
  I will have more details on this update next week but I was really curious about what improvements you would suggest for our commenting interface? What would you change or remove? What is missing? I started a thread here to get the brain waves flowing.

Your opinion is very important to us and we look forward to hearing from you,

Giannii

Community Manager