Installed IntenseDebate

November 18, 2008 by 17 Comments

I’ve installed IntenseDebate here to manage comments. It replaces the built-in WordPress comment system and helps aggregate and track comments both on this site and on other sites I manage. Since this is my tech blog, this is where I experiment, and here we are. The signup via OpenID and installation were relatively painless, although the process of linking a blog to the IntenseDebate account via OpenID isn’t as smooth as it could be.

I don’t have much to say at this point other than… it’s here. Feel free to leave a comment, let me know how you feel about it, and after a while I hope to be able to offer a meaningful review.

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  • http://intensedebate.com/people/TDavid TDavid

    Odds are you'll switch back. I don't see many bloggers using this (and follow hundreds of them), but best of luck all the same.

  • Betsy OurPDX

    I'm commenting here. With OpenID. Just to see if I can.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/TDavid TDavid

    Actually, it does cause a *little* additional work (not a big deal though). If you aren't logged in (as I wasn't), had to login first. That's sometimes enough for me to skip commenting on something. Intense Debate needs to increase the refresh time on their cookie for keeping people logged in. Or if that's a user setting that I somehow missed, I need to get cracking on it.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/ahockley ahockley

    Given that it doesn't appear to cause any additional work for the commenters, yet it appears I get some benefits, I'm not sure that I'll switch back unless I run into some problems.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/ahockley ahockley

    If you've got a screenshot showing where it's forcing you to log in, let me know. I just hit the site from a clean browser and I see a form where I can either put in anonymous name/email/url, or I can log in via Intense Debate or OpenID. It shouldn't be _forcing_ the login… and if it is I need to look at my options.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/mtata23 mtata23

    My blog http://gangetic.blogspot.comis a blogger blog and I am not able to add Intense Debate. I hope OpenID may help in installation

    • http://intensedebate.com/people/ahockley ahockley

      I don't think that Google will let someone install Intense Debate on a blogspot blog – that's one of the downsides of a hosted service like Blogger is that you can't customize many features.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/Snyke Snyke

    If anything ID gives you more options to identify yourself, and it does still offer you the old ones without complicating too much ^^

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/Adron Adron

    Kewlness. I've signed up.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/Adron Adron

    Ok… It's a little confusing initially. But I think I got it.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/ahockley ahockley

    Logging in is optional; comments can still be left anonymously.

  • Marc Styles

    i've just installed intense debate on my blog. still trying to get the hang of it and im not quite sure whether it eases the commenting process or not.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/gwalter gwalter

    IS this thing on?

  • Chris

    Pretty nifty. Let me know if you have any issues or anything that is really standout awesome super cool! about ID.

  • http://www.gscmobilesolutions.com/ Katerina Levine

    I have been commenting with intense debate for a while but just today installed it on my blog. It is easy to set up and I like the fact that it works with comment luv. When I installed it, it did take out my top commentators but you can install intense debates version using HTML.

  • http://namthaibinhduong.edu.vn du hoc

     I am trying to use Intense Debate now, I hope it will work well !

  • http://namthaibinhduong.edu.vn cong ty du hoc

    I think Intense and Disqus are 2 good comment systems now. I refer Intense debate, it works well on my blog