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Ideally, I'd like the system to simultaneously save comments to my blog and to disqus in real time so that if i ever decided to leave disqus, I just shut off the plugin with my comments already in my blog. I'm fearful that even an export/import tool that might work now might not work with the next version of WordPress, for example. But if we have a tool that is constantly duplicating our comments in both places - a function that I can test now and again, just by turning the plugin on and off - that would give me the greatest amount of confidence to take the disqus plunge.
I won't want to turn disqus off, but I've been burned too many times in the past to risk my data on any third party site.
...Dale
version of Disqus that will address this.
We will take a look into the best way you can import into WordPress.
it would make me "feel better"...
:)
I too am dying to know what's up.
Margaret
you don't hear from me soon, email me at daniel @ disqus
Thanks!
Just for the record -- I think this is a huge deal for WP users as that's the main reason I stopped using disqus on my blog -- I was just too uncomfortable with *my* data being off site. I had the unfortunate experience with Wordpress.com eating a 3 year old blog of mine for TOS violations -- right or wrong on their part -- I lost 100% of my original writings. So perhaps you can understand my paranoia surrounding allowing a free service to hold and control my data.
Margaret
Thanks!
Just for the record -- I think this is a huge deal for WP users as that's the main reason I stopped using disqus on my blog -- I was just too uncomfortable with *my* data being off site. I had the unfortunate experience with Wordpress.com eating a 3 year old blog of mine for TOS violations -- right or wrong on their part -- I lost 100% of my original writings. So perhaps you can understand my paranoia surrounding allowing a free service to hold and control my data.
Margaret
Passport was absolutely a different thing (they wanted ALL your data and they would allow you get it out at all, ever), but the feeling that a "turn my data over" service generates are the same. So really, without having EASY, any-user ways to move data in and out (no XML files don't count), Disqus finds itself competing against years of negative perception from sites like Passport, or stories like Margaret's.
Personally, I don't think the Disqus team should add any new functionality to place Disqus into additional platforms unless they launch an import/export tool alongside it. It's the ONLY way to showcase what you've said before - that you're not trying to own the data.
All that said, I'm waiting (not so) patiently to help beta test the WP importer! :)
exactly this.
The only thing more important at the moment is reliability and
performance.
But wouldn't a general import feature be more beneficial anyway? and then build whatever "enter name of blogging platform" import functionality on top of that?
Thanks so much!
Margaret
Thanks!
Margaret
If implemented, this feature would skyrocket sign-ups from Wordpress users.
Looking forward to the new release.
Giannii
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so my comments are hosted on your servers and i like to import them back.
as far as i know there is no way, with the xml-file i can export out of disqus. or is there a chance?