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The Disqus Blog: Various suggestions

  • Zuffox · 1 year ago
    Odd, the code I c/p'd got lost. I'll try again:

    After posting my last suggestion, I suddenly got the feeling that more ideas were floating around that I needed to put down in writing concisely. Hence these additional ones:

    Suggestions
    1) (Having the option of enabling) a comment number that links to its permalink when clicked - just like on a plethora of forums. Partly since it provides a greater overview in a long discussion, which you might lose track of otherwise, and partly because Disqus novices might not know that the comment permalink is found through the profile picture.
    2) (Having the option of enabling) a roll-down or link to somewhere containing a list of code supported by Disqus. This might be customization to an extent that API-fiddling might be the preferred solution, but while we're at it, another great addition to this would be blog owner being able to choose which codes are shown in said drop-down or link (e.g.). The list would probably get crowded either way, and perhaps it'd be too hasslesome for the Disqus crew to handpick a selected few codes that would be particularly useful. Teaching newbies to use blockquote and proper URL and image linking can be pivotal at times.
    3) (Having the option of enabling) a way for commenters to delete their own comments within a specified timeframe of X seconds after posting. Of course, you already have something in the pipeline, so I'll see what that'll be, when the time comes.
    4) Identicons rather than the usual John Doe picture. I get that its purpose is to ape the user into finding a picture, but it also does so at the expense of the blog owner's layout on the site. That person should probably be granted as much sense of ownership and autonomy as being able to choose the look of the default profile picture would give him or her. At least making it optional would be great - along with implementing various types of identicons as seen on the link.

    5) Being able to subscribe to a blog post's comments by mail. I've seen it on a friend's site, but he uses the API version.
    6) Being able to see if a person you're following makes a thread on disqus.com.
    7) A Preview button along Post and Cancel

    (Does the list code work by the way?)
  • Daniel Ha · 1 year ago
    1) Just FYI, you can find the permalink by clicking on the date.
    2) Agreed. Our help documentation is lacking.
    3) You'll see this very soon.
    4) We'll look at it. I'm not familiar with it yet.
    5) Absolutely. At the moment you can grab RSS and notifications come if you post. I think it's a good idea to have the option to explicitly say you want notifications.
    6) Do you mean the forum? I can see that.
    7) You can edit comments, so preview may not be entirely useful besides to see HTML formatting.
  • Zuffox · 1 year ago
    @6) Yup, the forums.
    @7) If I'm to nitpick, you can't edit OP's (thread starter comments), but I'm thinking of being able to check the formatting of your post and detect any other errors before anyone responds to your comment and voids that possibility. I know from experience how lightning fast you respond to comments, and other blogs with a very high activity will also prove to thwart the 'post edit' as a way to check your comments for errors.

    Thanks for all the answers.
  • Dr P Fenderson · 1 year ago
    I would also like to second the Identicons suggestion. It seems to be more useful to use a system that many sites use (the Identicon system ) - and even Gravatar itself uses - in order to hve a unified profile across sites...even ones not using the Disqus system.

    Here's is more information on the official Gravatar implementation:
    http://blog.gravatar.com/2008/04/22/identicons-...

    Seems as simple as adding an extra string to the end of the Gravatar URL if they don't have an account.
  • Scott · 1 year ago
    Ew. Yuck. I hate Identicons. If someone doesn't want to choose their own avatar/gravatar, then I think they should get the boring icon. If you implement Identicons, please make them optional.
  • Avery · 1 year ago
    Identicons are mainly a troll-prevention tool.
  • Evaristo Rojas Mayoral · 10 months ago
    About the Identicons: You already support Gravatar, so it's just matter of adding the parameter d=identicon to the Gravatar url.

    For instance, this is your identicon at Gravatar: http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/791bdb6273ec2c0c...

    The cool thing is that it only works if you haven't set up your Gravatar account, otherwise it shows your avatar instead of the identicon.

    Check this out.

    It would be nice to see this feature implemented.