For now at least, I'm just going to revert back to blogger. I can't get Disqus to reinstall itself on EQD at all. Maybe the service is down? Who knows. We might try it again in the future. At least I fixed the clone thing!
To all the new twitter/facebook commenters, make a Google account! It totally integrates with blogger, and if we ever do bring disqus back, it works there too.
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«Oldest ‹Older 1 – 200 of 225 Newer› Newest»Maybe we overloaded it a bit? sigh, as soon as I get used to one we're back to the other.
Deja vu
and making sure sethisto isn't spam filtered now :x
Testing Testing, also first
SETH! REMEMBER TO TURN OFF ANON POSTING AGAIN!!
So we run it for a day... well it was fun while it lasted
Dat Disqus XD
I'm OK with blogger
Change sucks sometimes
Sad.
Oh well, perhaps the next attempt will work out.
It's fine with me, I was ok with blogger.
Wow. Such timing.
The answer is magnets. Magnets all over your computer. Do it!
Yay Blogger! You're back! I missed you so much! How was your vacation on the moon? :3
I was wondering why the comments had disappeared. At least it wasn't just on my end. Glad to hear that.
I made a Disqus account and everything though. lol But at lest I'll be set for if we switch back to them again.
Back to normal too soon
Holy Celestia, keep Anon posting disabled.
There were so many smiling Twilights....
I will give my internets to whoever finds the lesson in all this.
Shame, the system could be great. :(
Disqus looked more bubbly and fit the whole feel of the site better, but this is okay, too. Thanks for your hard work, Seth; whatever you choose.
@Octavia
If blogger had bene on the moon i'd have gotten it back down before I tried to make Disqus work
Well, that was fun while it lasted.
Back to a 5,000 comment limit, 200 replies per page and no cloned comments. It's good to have you back, Blogger.
@SethistoTo be honest, I thought all of your spamming was you losing your mind after finding out Trixie wasn't Mare-Do-Well.
Okay, mine still works
I really prefer blogger, it is much simpler, in my honest opinion.
Discunnequs.
Squee! Back to sweet, sweet semimediocre normalcy.
@Poptard: the lesson is, Chaos Happens.
What did I miss?
I prefer blogger too, Disqus didn't stop to show my real name, and FULL name lmao
Dear Princess Celestia,
Today I learned that you should appreciate what you have, instead of trying to upgrade to a superior commenting system.
Your faitful student, Smiling Twilight.
Diqus to da moon with you!
oh well, back to using my Google account
Aww....oh well.
Hooray!
Blogger is simple, Disqus looked more professional, what matters is that we have ponies and voices to speak of them.
I'm ok with this.
RIP Disqus you will be perhaps somewhat missed, maybe.
So creating a Blogger account wasn't in vain. At least this answers my question: what happened to Disqus? I can't help thinking I might have jinxed it somehow.
That happened once to me too. Had to uninstall the whole thing, change the web direction, and install Disqus again.
Hopefully there's another solution, but anyway, i'm just fine with blogger
Yeah, I definitely prefer Blogger over Disqus. I have accounts on both, but Blogger's just better, IMO, despite it's limitations.
A shame. Once I had finally figured out how the new system worked, I quite liked it.
Maybe third time will be the charm?
@Poptard
Just because something seems shiny and new does not mean it will better suit your needs.
But that does not mean you should be afraid to try out new options- only that you should not be afraid to use the old system again if the new one is not working out the way you had hoped.
oh well back to blogger
Ah well, it was fun while it lasted.
It was...
Disqusting.
YYYYEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Google>Facebook. So it's more worthwhile to create a Google account.
Yay! Blogger! Disqus had some nice points, but the load times were painful.
All blogger really needs is an edit option and a better reply system. I can deal with everything else though i'm not really bothered by the lack of them.
It's workable.
Thank you, Seth! We appreciate the effort, if not the results. :/
For future reference, any comment system we try out must have unthreaded discussions. Please. Pretty please with apples on top.
@Wiki That's true. In the end, we're still gonna talk the heck out of this show.
Hmm too bad Disqus hasn't been working out, I thought it was more powerful and sleeker than blogger. Oh well.
Funny, besides my autocorrect fucking with me, I had no problems. The power of Google, fillies and gentle colts.
And this is why I didn't bother making an account to vote for EqD, because of shit like this. Now I have a throwaway account I'm never going to use.
Jesus...
Meh liked the other more but what you gunna do. /shrug
Oh well. Makes no difference to me. Thanks for trying to improve the site, though. It shows that you really care about us and the site. Thanks!
Dear princess Celestia
New=/=Good, but =/=Bad either.
Ah well, thanks for trying. Blogger will work just fine.
Ok, then.
I think both systems are fine. However, I did not like the fact that disqus did not show specific date and time for posts. Also it was wierd that all the old posts were converted to the new system.
Yay. Now I can tell who is who again
No see, as far as I can tell, it doesn't use the Blogger account on Disques -- it uses the normal Google one. Which means I can't be "Melodia" there.
As I said before (and is seemingly gone now) the Blogger interface is just so much more visually appealing, probably because it's tied in with the blogs themselves. Disques looks completely out of place.
And while there's less features, there's too much crap that just doesn't work well or is like, an anti-feature.
Gahhh. Oh well :/
So here I set up a Disqus account, futzed around with it for a while, added an icon image, wrote a bio and all and got it where I wanted it. All of which in turn made me say "Well, as long as I'm doing this...", so I set up a DeviantArt page finally. Got everything to link together...
...and we just go back to the old system. I don't really have any objections either way, but it just reminds me why I never usually bother with these settings to begin with. Ah well... as long as I can still post, I'm happy.
The picture seems so appropriate considering the situation.
Hooray for no more Disqus. It sux much more than blogger comments from the commenter perspective as well.
Just as long as I can keep on spammi... I mean, adding my intelligent additions to the conversations in the various comment threads, I'll be happy. I will miss the ability to edit my posts and a few other things, but if Disqus isn't going to work, it just isn't going to work.
Also...
Dear Princess Celestia,
Today I learned that while change can be uncomfortable, and not always effective, it is still worth the time and effort to try new things. After all, if us bronies hadn't tried out a different show starring multi-colored ponies in the first place, we'd be missing out on one of the best shows on television. Also, apparently, you should be wary of things that share at least half of their name with Discord.
Your faithful student,
Laurence Brown
Only one thing to do: DO DRUGS AND CREATE A ENTIRELY NEW COMMENT SYSTEM
I'll admit I kinda liked Disqus. If it gets brought back, I'll be pleased, but I'm content with the standard blogger system for now.
YES! Blogger sweet blogger, oh how I missed you!
@Harwick That's gotta suck big time. I'm sure lots of other users are in the same boat. As for me, I've only been here 48 hours, and it sure seems like the most interesting 48 hours this site has seen.
Both comment systems were allright. I was kind of getting used to Disqus though.
I think it'll actually work how I want it to this time
Aw, oh well, I guess if the comments weren't loading it wasn't the best comment system to be using, but I also think it did a lot of things better, such as notification and being able to sync with your Twitter or Facebook. Maybe later you can get the bugs worked out, or get a different comment system, but I guess Blogger works okay for a temporary.
Well, that was interesting. Oh well! At least we still have support for google accounts!
Blogger is best commentpostingdevice
well it was nice while it lasted. good try Seth =3
It was buggy...? Huh.
Seth. Forget Disqus. Get something better.
Personally I'm glad. I like this comment system. And my mom always told me "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."
Sad to see Disqus go, preferred it quite a lot more over Blogger especially because of the edit feature. Blogger realllllly needs that.
Was intreresting but I get my old name back yay :)
I like the Blogger system. Helps me track down my vict-...friends easier ;3
At least I've finally got my Google Account working (Chrome is so much better than Internet Explorer haha!)
Personally, I like the Blogger system better. It feels more like home.
I like that Blogger has the Comment box on the bottom.
Also Disqus was probably owned and operated by Discord so I expected chaos.
As Mozart would say, "If it ain't Baroque, don't fix it"
@Harwick
Perhaps stick the deviantart in your profile description then? it's less noticable but it would still work to an extent.
Also why doesn't your avatar and a few others load?
I dislike seeing that Blogger B.
Personally, I prefered blogger. If it isn't broken, why fix it right?
@cityflyer502
I survived. I'm thinking Seth likely found the amount of work he sunk into the system more frustrating than what little I had to deal with.
On more important matters, welcome to EQD! Every 48 hours is interesting here. Most are less buggy though.
RIP Disqus on EqD, or maybe just for now. I kind of liked Disqus, it was like Blogger except a editing feature and a different replying system.
I was one of the people who used the mobile version and that was a interesting experience. First the clones of Seth, then mobile users can only read mobile comments, now Disqus is off the site.
Welcome back Blogger!
It was worth a shot, but if they're not going to load, then there's not much point in having a comment system, is there? Also, with the jump in load time, Disqus was kinda handicapping itself a little in my opinion.
Also – I'm new, so this is an honest question – do we really need a new comment system?
Blogger is MUCH more suited for mobile devices (like my iPod touch) and let's just say I use my iPod for ponies more than my computer because I'm still a...closet brony is the word
Google account works?
I'm okay with this
Damn. Looks like my Disqus account was made in vain. Oh well. Blogger's fine by me.
Sethisto, Sethisto EVERYWHERE!!!
This blog was about to fall apart: Seth count at 5000, Anonymous posting, and... Actually, that's it.
Can someone give me a rundown on replying to comments on Blogger? It's HTML, isn't it?...
I like this way, now I can see every comment not just Seth's
Well at leas I can comment on mobile again. Thanks! :)
and...
@Octavia if it was sent to the moon what did it do? Did it approach Princess Celestial and say "Problem?"
@Flutterguy
I know that feel, brony.
^See that? That's not a true reply.
*Celestia
I like Discus because with Blogger it takes like 10 seconds to reload the whole website for my comment to post.
Plus Discus has "likes" which are useful when someone writes something really great and you just want to quickly acknowledge that you liked their post.
I preferred Blogger myself; it just feels less crowded.
Well on the plus side that Disqus thing told me why I couldn't get comments to work on here, so now I can post even though you're back on the old system.
@Flutterguy I'm the same way! Sort of... But yeah!
@Celestia
I just made that update to my blogger profile. I was trying to advertise the Deviant Art page because the name "Harwick" was already taken there and I needed to do a variation, which in turn led some people to be concerned that someone else had set up the page instead of me.
It seems the grumpy Spike avatar is working now too. Everyone breathe very carefully and hopefully it will all stay stable for a while...
Regardless, still happy to be posting.
Wordpress > Blogger.
That was rather unfortunate.... and I was beginning to like it. Oh well, back to the ol' original blogger.
I like this much better, smaller comment boxes but no so small that they get unnoticed among the crowd. The comments standout each on their own now better.
welcome back blogger
Whatever works, man. I just like seeing things change. it's more fun that way.
Yay no more change.
Least this one is working :)
I was really looking forward to testing it out with my PC. On my phone it was slow but cool. Oh well....
Fine. There. Now I'll probably never post again.
Or maybe this will motivate me to post in future?
@milleniummaster18
You didn't have to make a new account, you could use an account from multiple other sites instead.
No Seth, Disqus was decidedly not fun.
Okay, it would probably be good for short comment threads that wouldn't see more than a page, maybe for drawfriends or nightly roundups or things like that, but it's absolutely terrible for very long threads for ongoing stories.
Although the ability to edit comments will be sorely missed.
Best gif and announcement ever.
Yay!
@Scout
You could have changed that if you went to their website.
Why would it be weird?
eh, no biggie. i like both blogger and disqus. at least some of us will have a disqus account if you ever decide to use it again
awesome, the new comments sucked
Finally Seth got rid of Discor- I mean Disqus, Blogger works better for me.
Also, this weekend has been hilarious here on EQD.
I prefer blogger IMO. The new system made me see double posts everywhere.
Good. Disqus was a piece of shit anyways
Not gonna lie i prefer blogger over disqus
@Harwick Thanks for the welcome. As for computer bugs, by now I've learned to deal with them. I live and breathe computers (and apparently now ponies) so I'm always dealing with computer bugs. Doesn't make them any less fun. LOL
I gotta tell ya, I've HATED using Disqus on engadget.com.....please leave it off EQD. My retreating hairline will thank you.
Uh..... testing? :p
mixed emotions, over all I'm relieved though
Aww, I caved and finally signed up
Does it work from my iPod?
Thanks Seth. That scared me for a bit when i woke up at 6 in the morning to find Disqus had fragged my entire EqD experience. :P
Yes, maybe one day in the future we should try again, when its gonna work properly. But for now, im back in business with my Blogger profile and all is right with the world. :)
Hmm, I thought Disqus was better in almost every way... especially with it's ability to sort posts by newest as opposed to having to go to the last page, "like" posts, and actually have threaded replies...
Yeah there were some bugs, but I don't think you gave it a long enough chance...
DISQUORD
ZING
Goodbye post editing... I hardly knew you.
I like blogger enough for me to be indifferent if EqD uses it or not.
And I would like to add (since I can't edit the post anymore) that sorting posts by newest complete gets rid of the "first" posting nonsense.
Like it or not, Disqus actually encourages "discussion" in the comments (especially with the ability to upvote good comments), whereas the blogger comments are kind of a *chan thread-esque free-for-all. (The reply system is very similar).
But whatever.
@Bronode
Exactly, being able to edit comments was the best thing about it, but even then as was said (and is now for some reason lost) it doesn't show ANY indication of posts having been edited. This is a Bad Thing.
What else was wrong?
-Old avatars were gone. ALL old posts showed Twilight.
-They replaced the exact dates with vague "x months ago", etc. Who the hell ever thought that was a better idea?
-It just looked horrid. The Blogger system flows with the blog nicely.
-As I said above, since someone else took 'Melodia' on Disques, I couldn't be that, despite the fact it still has an email-based login. It couldn't link to Blogger, only to Google, which is separate.
jeez, i'm gone for an hour and everything turns to horse apples
*shrugs* I'm game.
@Nimbus Buster I see it more like 'what the buck just happened?' Tried to post, nothing happened, commenting disappeared, and next thing I knew, Blogger was back. I sure chose an interesting time to surrender to ponies.
but i liked disqus :( was way better for me xD
I was a fan of DQ though..... ahh well, i rarely comment anyways(because google account always makes me sign in and its really annoying), but I was gonna try toget more involved.
@Poptard
The lesson is "if it ain't broke, don't try to fix it"
But Seth I want Disqus back!
Please find out a way to bring it back sometime, will you?
was fun
@Jph89
Yours is one of the best reasons for Disqus imo. It actually encourages participation in comments by those who don't normally comment, because the comment section isn't just a giant chaotic wall of text where the majority of posts get ignored or lost.
I would just like to say I'm really, -really- going to miss the ability to edit comments.
Meh, it was cool while it lasted. Back to good old simple Blogger :)
The thing with Blogger comments, is it makes me unknown and I'm unsure on how to make it so it shows my name =/
Everyone was Twilight
And this is bad how..?
Seriously though, if you uploaded your avatar to Disqus, if it had to be resized it would look like ass - literally in my case; can you imagine how my red glowy thing would look if it were all smeared and the red lines looked random?
lisen their is a website that I visit that has a very good comment engine, its on halolz.com
its called intensedebate it should work for this
OH THANK GOODNESS
I was worried I'd have to go through all the crap my roommate went through last night with getting a whole new account. More trouble than it was worth really. The reply system for blogger works pretty fine if you ask me and editing comments is only neccesary every now and then, and then you can just delete an old comment and try again.
Like my mother always said "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
@Sumo Unicorn
This'll be my last post on the subject since I don't like arguing... but the problem is with Eqeustria Daily, the blogger comment system *is* broken. The current system doesn't handle the high number of comments all EqD articles get very well - it basically makes it an overwhelming, hard to navigate mess with little-to-no real discussion.
The two features we really need (I think) are the ability to sort comments (by newest, etc.) and to have nested replies/threads. That allows for real, civil discussion on subjects. Especially for things like the most recent episode post, where people are extremely opinionated, it's hard to have a real discussion with the current system.
Welcome back to the 1990's. 8^)
May I suggest DreamWidth? Unfortunately, importing Blogger content into DreamWidth is probably not possible.
And I'm used to Blogger's comment system. I can use edit:find:string to find replies and where I left off last time I posted on any given page. 200 comments/page is better than 100 comments in a community this size.
ahh well. maybe next time!
And today was the day I discovered how to Blogger comment
@Rayn
Read that in T.Sparkle's voice. I think I'm beyond repair
@Dusty the Royal Janitor
TL;DR version of the other comment
I'm a bit disappointed by this turn of events...
Eh...
I'll live.
Thank Celestia.It feels good to not see thirty different smiling me's on every page.
no problem at all.
Well, as they say in France, c'est la vie.
testing?
Awwww. I really prefered Discus. *cry*
It actually worked much better on my phone.
Oh well, horseapples happen.
@Twilight Sparkle
Another me? I thought that was over with!
Who's the real Twilight Sparkle? Are either of you affiliated with https://www.facebook.com/pages/Twilight-Sparkle/223267357701977 or https://www.facebook.com/pages/Twilight-Sparkle/162858040446868 ?
Booo... I love the Disqus system
I can comment again.
*Fluttershy volume*...yay...
@Sethisto
Who's a silly pony, you are. Yes you are. And do you know why? Because you had faith in discus and not Discord.
DEATH TO ALL SUN LOVERS, LONG LIVE DISCORD
Aw I am disappoint.
@InfinityDash
OMG trying to go through the comments on an episode post and a drawfriends(the two main things I use the site for) is almost impossible. At least with DQ I could have an actual conversation. Ohh well, back to semi quiet lurking for me....
@Shadow Heart
Screw Discord.
THE NEW LUNAR REPUBLIC WILL RISE. HUZZAH!
I don't think Disqus is good for a site like this so im ok with this.
Nice while it lasted I guess, I really preferred the Disqus version better. I never liked that the reply system for Blogger doesnt actually post the reply right after the comment.
@Tundra
Hey! At least we can agree that either of our sides are better than Trollestia right?
Also, I think you haven't properly thought out who you were insulting. The last pony that insulted Discord like that was Screwball. Do I have to say anything else?
Please, please, PLEASE!!! For the love of all that is holy, KEEP BLOGGER!! I'm on my PS3 most of the time and Disqus absolutely refused to work. I set up the account, verified my email, but I couldn't see the comments, let alone post one. Sure, EqD gets alot of cool stuff, but that's only half of the fun. Sharing our opinions with each other through the comments makes me feel like I'm not alone. So please Seth, please stick with Blogger? [Fluttershy]Pretty please?[/Fluttershy]
Today's drawfriend was epic too and I didn't get to post.
Aww. I like Disqus. The reply thing on Blogger is bad.
And Derpy... is doing the Terezi thing.
YES! Disqus Flutterbitched on Firefox
@Shadow Heart
Actually if you recall, the last pony that successfully insulted Discord was Fluttershy. In the end, she turned out all right and saw to the re-stoning of Discord.
I'm not too concerned.
*Psycho Twilight grin*
Okay Seth, for you...
Good.
Disqus is universally hated on the "big" sites that suddenly changed over (CNN, FoxNews, etc.).
http://garmahis.com/reviews/why-disqus-sucks/
Well let's see if this works now...
And here I was welcoming our new Disqus overlords. Ah well. I do hope continued efforts are made to upgrade the comment system. After having a taste of Disqus it's making Blogger's system look so obsolete.
Awww....... :(
Man i like Disqus so much better......
I hope we can work the bugs out and bring it back some time soon
@Questionmarktarius I wouldn't really trust the reviewing skills of someone who can barely write a proper sentence.
Alright, my last comment on this, I swear (I'm overly opinionated on this...).
Disqus definitely has flaws. But if Disqus doesn't work, *please* try to upgrade to a comment system that allows nested replies, sorting, and editing. Those 3 features are pretty much standard in all major websites' comment systems, and they greatly improve communication and discussion. The reply system on Blogger is particularly bad - it's near impossible to have a discussion. And if you post a comment that ends up on page 2 of, say, 3 pages of comments, it's likely no one will ever see or respond to it. And finally, in general the first comments posted get the most attention, which may not be the best (particularly "first"s). Giving us the option to sort by newest as well as oldest really brings more attention to more peoples' thoughts on whatever the topic is.
Anyways, I also just want to thank Seth and the EqD team because you guys do a great job, but I really hope you consider implementing *something* better than Blogger comments, if you read this, of course :/
Thanks
I was... a bit worried when I used disqus to comment and it showed my real life name. I missed blogger... I think.
Yay, good riddance.
love the ditzy
Yay for restored sanity!
I have to say that I LIKED blogger, once some of the initial bugs were worked out.
I already miss:
Editing comments
Nested threads
The community tracking
Per comment ratings
Sortability
And all at the cost of what... a little performance, or a few seconds of load time. I am usually FIRST to complain about load time. My computer sucks horse apples, and not the Applejack grown variety. It's an ancient Mac, from 2004, running an out of date OS, Flash and Safari.
And you know what my thoughts on Disqus were, once the majority of the bugs were resolved, and I set up my account, and the settings started getting fine tuned...
I'm okay with this.
Goodnight sweet Disqus... 1:25AM - 6:16PM
...
...
/)O_O(\
You died fast!
ahhh to bad. I kinda hoped disqus would be it but oh well. At least this loads faster. (>_<)
@richfiles
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
THIS IS WHAT I MEAN!!!
I MEANT to say "I have to say that I LIKED Disqus, once some of the initial bugs were worked out."
But, you know... I CAN'T go and FIX it anymore... cause, you know...
Blogger is so LIMITED!
Aww... I was really enjoying Disqus. Worked out fine for me. Oh well hopefully these issues get worked out and we can revert back to Disqus.
Yay! I didn't like disqust at all!
aw... and I had just gotten used to it too...
Disqus = Discord.
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