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Comments gone (intense debate sucks)

Published by Esteban Glas on June 18th, 2009 | This post lacks all category except for: All this and that

I tried IntenseDebate for a couple of months. It Sucks. Badly. I’ve seen comments vanish, disappear, make all sorts of odd things.
I’ve seen comments going to ID but not to the blog and viceversa.
As a result I decided to deactivate the doomed thing today. And I lost a lot of comments thanks to that dreaded 2 decisions.
I’m really pissed. But, what can you do. I’ll look at ways of recovering those comments.



  • Kyle
    IntenseDebate gives me weird snippets on my search results, most notably the infamous %3A54%3A14. If you google “%3A54%3A14″ it’ll give you a list of blogs that use intensedebate. See how it screws up their search result snippets. IntenseDebate is in my opinion really BAD for SEO and should be avoided like the plague. I can overlook the slowness and occasional bugs, but I can't overlook the yucky search results snippets that intensedebate is producing. It's bad for SEO and normal users alike.
  • Debty
    Ahaan... I will follow.
  • @Lechu: I still like the idea. Will try with Discuss at some point. If that is not fulfilling I'll probably end up doing something on my own. Or not.

    @Mark: Enhanced Commenting in the form of: Facebook connect + OpenID capabilities + improved commenting options (in the form of video commenting and WYSIWYG), comment rating.
  • Mark
    Esteban,

    What had you hoped to get by installing intenseDebate?

    What were the purported advantages vs regular comments, trackbacks, etc?

    Mark
  • Lechu
    When I first read about Intense Debate I thought it was a revolution by itself. Let's discard the code, but what about the idea?
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