Following the trend Cyberlizard and Attempts at Rational Behavior have started (or, more accurately, are probably following themselves), I’ve installed IntenseDebate for the comments section of each post. I’m a little worried about not being able to back out without losing new comments that are added, but I’m willing to do a manual import if necessary, while my site’s low-enough volume that it won’t be back-breaking work.
What do you folks think?
Just a quick test comment. I want to make sure it integrates with my sidebar widgets.
I'm still sitting on the fence as far as IntenseDebate goes. I still like to have it all under my direct control.
I think it's a lovely idea. Then again, I'm one of the ones that inspired your conformity 🙂
I suspect Reply Via E-mail is grossly broken. It shows up on my feed of recent posts, but it's not showing up here. Very strange.
On my WP install, the comments get written to both IntenseDebate and to the WP database, so I could just turn off ID and still have all my comments.
It's always worked great on my site. That's typically how I reply to most of my commenters. Maybe you're just teh sux0r? 😉
On Chrome, there are funky unrenderable characters at the end of each line. CRLF's perhaps?
Well that's weird. Took forever to show up, and it's got odd symbols for nbsp's.
Well that's weird. Took forever to show up, and it's got odd symbols for nbsp's. And I can't edit it, coz I just replied. Doh.
Well that's a relief. I'm not at home (where I have a MySQL Admin set up for quick access to my website database), or I'd look to make sure, but I hope you're right about that.
It looks like the reply via e-mail does not get stored in your WP database. In viewing the source for the page, that reply is notably absent. I'm guessing the replies from your site's WP database are showing up in the source, but hidden. The IntenseDebate comments are then overlayed using JavaScript.
With JavaScript disabled, the regular comments show up, but with enlarged gravatars. Emailed reply is absent from regular comments that way.
Looks like I'm going to have to disable the reply-by-email. Shame, that was a killer feature. Thanks for looking into it, man… as always, all it takes is a bit of concerted looking.