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Re: Integrating with existing comments

obscurelyfamous — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:37:01 -0000

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

Re: Integrating with existing comments

Andy C — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 06:54:48 -0000

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.

Re: Integrating with existing comments

Wayne Smallman — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:36:48 -0000

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...

Re: Integrating with existing comments

Amit Bhawani — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:05:28 -0000

I added this service on my blog http://www.amitbhawani.com/... and did announce it too http://www.amitbhawani.com/... 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

Re: Integrating with existing comments

Wayne Smallman — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:34:20 -0000

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.

Re: Integrating with existing comments

Jason — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:26:20 -0000

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.

Re: Integrating with existing comments

Wayne Smallman — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:23:08 -0000

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?

Re: Integrating with existing comments

Jason — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:25:14 -0000

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.