If you’re viewing through RSS, you might want to click on this story. I’ve updated Lost to include a new Web 2.0 comment system so that you can register in one place and comment anywhere it’s installed. It’s a new system called Intense Debate. On top of the 1 registration to control them all feature, there are several others as well. Your profile allows you to show several other profiles (Facebook, MySpace, etc), has a comment rating system built in (reputation/comment vote), an RSS feed for your comments and a heck of a lot more.
At this time, Intense Debate natively supports several blogging systems and several others through a javascript snippet. If you’re running WordPress from your own site, it’s the same as the WordPress.org button, otherwise you’ll have to manually place your javascript snippet instead of installing a plugin - not fun. For native support, you insert your blog details and it gives you a file to download. For WP, it was one PHP file that installed as a normal plugin. After that, I had to go to my blog options, hit Import and let it run for a few minutes. While it was running, their system started emailing me on comments that needed to be moderated - odd because it marked all my comments for moderation even though it wasn’t supposed to.
While installing and such, their site was a tad slow. From what I’m seeing in my mailbox, they’re getting hit with people installing the service, so things should start to pick up soon.
Registration is pretty easy if you’re just registering for a profile. Other than that, it’s the standard test and retest of getting your old comments exported and tweaking the system to do what you want.
Anyway, you can see the newer comment list on the sidebar and the newer comment section below. I’m sure it’ll update over the next few days since it’s listed as “Beta-ish”.
Problems that I see right now:
- No incoming link tracking (Trackbacks). The amount of comments that didn’t show up at first worried me until I found out it was all Trackbacks.
- The ability to limit the last X posts in the sidebar. Right now it’s 10 comments and wowzers, if they don’t change it, I may need to pull the widget or change themes to a double sidebar.
- UI Issues with text over an image.
