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The Disqus Blog: Disqus and Windows Live Writer

  • Daniel Ha · 1 year ago
    We discovered that using an external blogging tool does not respect
    the options set in Blogger. The comments need to be closed for Disqus
    to take effect.
  • gibtown · 1 year ago
    Thanks Daniel. When you say the comments need to be closed, are you referring to the option in Blogger to hide comments? Is there a way to actually get the external editor to play nice and use Disqus?
  • Daniel Ha · 1 year ago
    Under Settings > Comments, you do need to set "New posts do not have
    comments"
  • gibtown · 1 year ago
    Thanks Daniel. I did have that set correctly.
  • Daniel Ha · 1 year ago
    Right. I believe Windows Live Writer does not respect this setting
    when it makes the post.
  • geektonic · 1 year ago
    So is there any chance this can be fixed or are we stuck waiting for MS to fix Live Writer?
  • gibtown · 1 year ago
    Keep in mind, this isn't just Live Writer that has this problem. It appears to be all external editors.
  • geektonic · 1 year ago
    So given that fact - are the Disqus folks able to do anything to resolve this? If not, it's a show-stopper for me.
  • gibtown · 1 year ago
    Doubt it. I haven't heard anything on the topic since my original post a month ago. Yeah, it sucks.
  • Daniel Ha · 1 year ago
    Sorry, we're behind on support. It's my fault.

    I'm trying to catch up now.
  • Daniel Ha · 1 year ago
    Yes, this is true. We're aware but have not been able to fix the issue
    yet.
  • Daniel Ha · 1 year ago
    We've looked at this. We can't change how external editors post to
    Blogger. I'm investigating an alternative solution.
  • geektonic · 1 year ago
    Daniel,
    Ok. I really need this to be resolved one way or another as I use Live Writer almost exclusively so I'm very interested in a solution. Keep us updated on any progress.

    Thanks
  • Andrew B. · 1 year ago
    Isn't this a bug on Blogger's end, not Live Writer?
  • gibtown · 1 year ago
    Yeah, appears to be Blogger because all of the external editors I have tested do this.
  • technokitten · 1 year ago
    Yup, I'm having the same problem. Just as I, and my readers, were getting in to the disqus thing, I switched to Live Writer (which is brilliant btw!) and it's reverted. It's a shame because I like the Disqus concept and I'd like to support it if I can. Please keep us posted as to any work arounds with this.
    Thanks in advance.
  • Daniel Ha · 1 year ago
    This is an issue with Blogger and external blog editors. They do not respect the comment settings.

    Unfortunately there is little we at Disqus can do about this.
  • technokitten · 1 year ago
    Thanks for getting back to me so quickly but I'm slightly surprised with your response as it's rather terse. The people in this forum have bothere to look up and ask if there's something we can do about this and you're just saying 'no'. I don't believe that 'no' is any sort of compromise or way forward to getting a problem like this solved.

    Perhaps you can clarify, whether or not you have opened dialogue with them and what, if anything happened? Is there anything we can do as a community? Are there workarounds?

    You're trying to give us tools to build communities around our blogs. It seems to me this could be a good opportunity to walk the talk and for us to collectively try and find a way through this.

    Just my 2p.
  • Daniel Ha · 1 year ago
    Sorry if my post sounded terse; my post was done from my phone and brevity comes off badly many times. I promise it was friendly. :)

    I agree that this needs to be indicated in our help documentation because the issue comes up often. I would very much like this to be resolved, but it's been difficult for us to get in contact with the people who can fix this. I will continue seeing if we can address it.

    Again, this isn't something we are ignoring -- it's just something we can't immediately solve ourselves without the help of Blogger.
  • technokitten · 1 year ago
    thank you for taking the trouble to clarify that :)
    I look forward to Blogger making things a bit easier.
  • mpassell · 5 months ago
    Is there anything us Blogger users can do to help this along? Voting on a bug, contacting Blogger support, etc.?
  • geektonic · 1 year ago
    Any updates on this? I'd REALLY like to go back to using LiveWriter for my blog
  • ccostan · 1 year ago
    *BUMP* - I assume still no resolution on this. :( I'd love to use DiSQus on the blog but cannot bare to give up Live Writer..