DISQUS

The Disqus Blog: Integrating with existing comments

  • Jason · 2 years ago
    Hi Wayne,

    None of the options will ever permanently remove your comments -- they are just to control which comments to enable Disqus on. Using the option "Replace all entries with no comments (including future posts)" will keep comments on all your existing posts and only enable Disqus on new entries or entries that did not previously have comments.
  • WayneSmallman · 2 years ago
    Hi Jason, and thanks for the prompt reply.

    I've enabled that option for now. So the next question is, when people add comments to one of my 'blog articles, where are the comments saved to?

    Are they still saved to my 'blog, or does Disqus save them?
  • Jason · 2 years ago
    They are saved on Disqus. If you ever need to migrate your commentsback, we will support that. This feature is currently on a private release of the plugin as we are working to scale migrations (backwards and forwards) with Disqus.
  • WayneSmallman · 2 years ago
    Hi Jason, as much as I like what Disqus offers, I'm not comfortable with the comments being stored elsewhere.

    I appreciate your stance on the ownership of comments, but I'd be much happier knowing those comments were being stored with the rest of my 'blog.
  • amitbhawani · 2 years ago
    I added this service on my blog http://www.amitbhawani.com/blog/ and did announce it too http://www.amitbhawani.com/blog/disqus-comment-... but i found all my new comments were taken by this system and there was no way to recover them back, if this system just makes a copy of our comments here then their would be no problem :)
    Amit
  • WayneSmallman · 2 years ago
    Hi Amit, thanks for commenting.

    It would be easy to extend the commenting from within WordPress — add a new table to the database that maps the parent-child relationship between the comments and then Disqus can save all of the other user-specific stuff to their own databases...
  • Andy C · 2 years ago
    I agree about the wording of the 3 options. Integration with pre-existing comments isn't there yet. Nor is migration from Disqus back into the native blog. That's why Disqus is also disabled on my blog.

    I think 'beta' is the missing word.
  • solidsmack · 2 years ago
    HI, I'm going to have to agree with the others. I saw the options and paused. I looked in the FAQ's and didn't find any clarification then came to the forums. I was picturing Disqus as sort of a "skin" for the commenting area. I understand there needs to be a little more with the features you plan to provide, but I think it would be better understood and integrated into more websites if it was seen as "Skin your comments, get these cool features" kinda approach. I'd definitely want to moderate comments from my blog admin as well. Thanks, looking forward to further development.
  • Daniel Ha · 2 years ago
    Disqus is currently offered as a full replacement for your blog comments. What would you like for me to clarify?

    Feel free to shoot me an email as well: daniel@disqus.com