Disqus is a commenting system and moderation tool for your site or blog. It’s pretty amazing; I use it here at U Stand Out. It’s super easy to use and is packed with neat features including social network integration, powerful moderation/spam filter tools, and connection to an entire discussion community. Disqus V3 is being launched today, and now offers a management system for the commenters themselves.
Disqus already had advantages to both commenters and publishers, but especially publishers. With features like integrated Facebook Connect and the ability to sign in with other social networking accounts, including Twitter, publishers don’t have to worry about configuring comment registration themselves. In case you haven’t tried it, installing Facebook Connect yourself and actually getting it to work can be a major headache.
So what’s so cool about V3?
Disqus Profile
Not to worry; the Disqus Profile is not another profile you have to manage (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc ^infinity). It’s a management tool for commenters to control all their comments, subscriptions, and profiles, all in one place.
You can browse your comment history, and view, edit, or delete comments without having the visit the specific site or blog. You can also add your various social profiles (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) to your Disqus profile and syndicate your comments through Disqus to all or some of those networks.
The advantage of catering to users in addition to publishers isn’t only that it makes the system more efficient (which is definitely true), but that it will encourage users to be more active commenters. This is good news for bloggers out there who have Disqus installed, and is also a good reason to use Disqus on your own blog if you’re not already.
Disqus Comments
Disqus Comments was amazing even before V3. In case you have not used Disqus before, here are some of my favorite features to begin with:
- Comment format: threaded comments and replies
- SEO Friendly: comments indexable by search engines (which as an SEO nerd makes me very happy)
- Social Login Capabilities: allows users to sign in with other social network logins (Facebook Connect, sign in with Twitter, Open ID, etc)
- Moderation: powerful moderation and spam filtering tools
- Auto-sync: easy to import existing comments and backup comments
- Subscription: easy-to-use subscription and RSS options help you keep your readership numbers
- Discussion community: Connection with a large discussion community, which leads to increased exposure and readership. I get lots of traffic through Disqus
Here are some new features V3 has to offer:
- Moderation interface: has been redesigned to an inbox-style that makes moderation super easy
- Filtering options: You can now filter by comment, thread, or search term
- Word filter: enter words that will trigger moderation if mentioned in comments
- Whitelist or blacklist: ban or always allow email addresses or usernames to comment
- Customization: includes nicer styling options for your comments section
The one problem I have with Disqus is the inability to change your username. Now that V3 allows you to have your own Disqus vanity URL (mine is http://disqus/dianaf86), I care more about changing my screen name created last year to my more universal dianafreedman screen name. Upon asking the people at Disqus if I could switch (I already made sure to snatch up dianafreedman), they informed me it wasn’t possible. Hmph.
What do you think of the latest version of Disqus? How do you manage comments on your site? Do you think you’ll use Disqus to manage your own comments?
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Sound like an important tool which will help bloggers increase discussion on blogs.
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Hi Diane just saw where you tried to reach out to those lamers on BC perhaps it was past their grade level
Peace 
anyway I tried it and like it but since I have almost 3000 do follow keyword and comment luv comments and if it wasn't for my commenters I would of QUIT along time ago I was worried they wouldn't like it to be honest. Also I was waiting to get a little bigger then maybe try it
anyway it's very cool and I will check out the upgrade when no one is LOOKING like in the middle of the night. When I did try it about 2 months ago I was so worried when I deactivated it but it reverted back fine
anyway nice site
Best wishes
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'm intrigued about Disqus V3, the service is definitely a true system for powering real discussion.
i would love to read more from you on this
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james still
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i would love to read more from you on this
I agree with what the post is saying because I have been using Disqus for a long time now. I noticed that it has updated its system with new features that is useful for all online users that comments on blogs.
Disqus is a boon to Blog readers it accepts comments so fast…..
I will continue to use Disqus .. it rocks
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This news is not new to me because I know for a fact that Disqus is always finding ways to improve its system from time to time. I have been using the Disqus system in my blog websites for the past 2 years now and I haven't gotten any complaints and problems about it.
Hi I have also installed disqus comment form on my blog. I also installed top commentator widget on my blog. I want that top commentator get backlink from my blog, but on the top commentator list instead of showing the link of top commentators it showing disqus link. Please help me how I can do it?
the service is definitely a true system for powering real discussion.
This work for Facebook too? I have a fan page and I would lie to increase the trafic. Thanks!
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Recognizing that at its core, Disqus has always had two different audiences, the company is now relaunching the platform as two different services: Disqus Comments and Disqus Profile.
I am a blogger and I used to DISQUS for commenting.DISQUS is such a nice thing to other blogger.DISQUS goes great with Facebook awesome work..
Disqus makes commenting easier and more interactive, while connecting websites and commenter across a thriving discussion community.
Disqus allows the blogger to have greater control with comments.I love Disqus we can get a lot of benefit here and it can help us.
This is really great news, because it will increase your comment count dramatically! As you can see it for this post already
Disqus had been really famous for many bloggers, for with disqus they can easily monitor their comment
Disqus is fantastic, it's certainly saved me a ton of time as a webmaster. I find it integrates nicely with WordPress (which I run) and fits well into what I'd expect from a discussion based commenting system.
Hi Diana:
I just love using the Disqus plug-in what a great resource. I can make comments on other people's blog and all the comments are recorded onto your Disqus account.
Also if you have Disqus on your blog, you can reply to someone's comment through your Disqus account rather than having to go to that individual blog post… just like I'm doing now!
Thanks for your comment!
I think the most striking feature of DISQUS is how it perform in all the blogs I work on. Pretty fast for a commenting system.
I like qisqus because it give me a freedom to give comment without having to login to each blog that i went in.I love Disqus much more.
I absolutely love Disqus and am happy that you guys are trying it out. I get all excited when I see other websites using Disqus, and it encourages me to leave a comment.
this was a really good article.thanks for sharing the information.disqus system is really perfect.
it allows the blogger to have greater control with comments.
Good news.disqus bring us a lot of convenient,I like it very much
Yep, discus is the best commenting system, compared to native WP / Typepad. This includes accounts interactions
This is a great new version of diqus. I am enjoy using it a lot.
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