Disqus

I'm experimenting with a new commenting system for this blog called Disqus.

It's exactly the kind of thing that I wish I'd had when I was running A Limey In Bermuda. Why?

• You can rate other people's comments (with automatic hiding of comments that score too low).
• You can edit your own comments after posting them.
• You can add a gravatar (a picture) to all your comments, to make it easier for people to recognise you.
• You can keep track of all the comments you have left on this site (and any others that use Disqus) in a single place.
• I can provide per-comment RSS feeds.
• I can display comments in threads, to make conversations easier to follow.
• You and I can both reply to comments on our content via email, and have those replies appear as comments on the site.

And a whole bunch of other great stuff besides. It even made me briefly think about restarting LiB, with comments, just so I could use it in anger!

The main downside seems to be that Disqus comments are not indexed by Google et al, so you can't use the site search to find them.

Let me know what you think.