Intense Debate
After seeing several of my favourite blogs enable them, coupled with Db0’s frustratingly brilliant reasoning for having them, I have installed Intense Debate, which means all comments are now in uber-awesome format, and you can respond directly to previous comments via threading.
This of course removes the need to put @user or #12 in reference to a certain comment, and makes discussions that inevitably erupt in comments easier to maintain (and read). The latest version of I.D. (that’s Intense Debate, not Intelligent Design) meant that I could simply import all my comments I already had, so I don’t lose any of the lovely things everyone has said!
I’m still in the middle of fixing the custom CSS, but that shouldn’t take long. If comments look screwy for a few minutes, I’m just tinkering over the interwebs.
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Oh so quoted! :D
sweet, and your Open ID works for logging in, unlike some sites which use Intense Debate?
hey db0 know anything about that problem?
What do you mean? Open ID should work find with IDC, at least it works for me
@ db0 – A few sites I've been to that use IDC I can't use my Open ID to login, the page refreshes after I press 'login' but I'm not logged in. I have to use my user name and password. I'll try and note which sites have this problem and report back.Sorry to hijack your blog Adrian, but perhaps if anyone else has noticed this they could also let us know which sites this effects?
You should also open a support call with the ID about this. Perhaps they can help. For the record, what site are you using for openid?
Hehe, I thought that was what Intense Debate was for :P
for the record – http://ozatheist.wordpress.com/
will notify ID when I find 'bad' sites.
Cool. I've been pretty happy with it for the most part. I just wish they would restore the features that made me switch and have since been disabled (e.g., being able to important and export easily into Blogger).
for the record – http://ozatheist.wordpress.com/
will notify ID when I find 'bad' sites.
and yes db0 I'm still using the free wordpress host LOL
Hmmmm…perhaps it's time for atheistrev.com to become a fully hosted platform?
And I have a still open invitation to that extent ;)
how much are you making out of this db0? still drumming up business I see. LOL
Not a cent. I'm afraid the experiment was not a success. People are very afraid of change apparently.
Thanks for reminding me to do the very same! :-)
Intense Debate is driving me nuts personally. I finally found a theme that doesn't break with it installed nor ignores it, but now it won't show older comments even though the settings page says they've been imported. WP2.7 is supposed to have threaded comments when it comes out which was my main reason for attempting to install ID. I'm thinking of just doing away with ID.
Karen, you should contact the support team in GetSatisfaction. They're very helpful
Really? I imported a rather large amount of older comments when I upgraded to the new version of ID (previously I hadn't bothered and just let them stay as-is) and as far as I can tell they're all showing up fine.
What was the problem you were having with ID and breaking themes? Maybe I or one of the other smart cookies here can help you with it. I had some minor breakage when I switched to Mandigo but it was solved by putting an explicit width on ID's div (thus preventing it from causing the content column to become monstrous and shove the sidebars off to the side).
If that last sentence made sense to anyone, they get a cookie.
"I’m still in the middle of fixing the custom CSS, but that shouldn’t take long. If comments look screwy for a few minutes, I’m just tinkering over the interwebs."
Boy oh boy, am I ever familiar with that. :p
The primary reason I switched themes, and one of the reasons I like ID for that matter, is that the style/presentation is taken care of by someone else and I don't have to fiddle with it anymore!
Any ideas on how to "tone" it down?
I like it. I like that I can reply dirct fom my email account as well
Oh hai! I haz intens deeb8 nao :-)
Btw, you're going to need a good anti-spam plugin probably. I had some problems with bcspamblock (blocking trackbacks) and badbehaviour (blocking syncing) so I ended up using http://wordpress-plugins.feifei.us/hashcash/ which seems good enough
I must say, I do like the new look to the comments.
Completely unrelated: Tagged
Yeah, I think I managed to get the custom theming working. Blockquotes look nice again:
Whitewash?
Too flashy. Too little content, too much noise. People shout instead of commenting. Don't like it, tone it down.
Welcome to the ID community! Heh. I bet you never thought you'd hear someone tell you that ;o)
You have been Tagged http://ozatheist.wordpress.com/2008/11/27/six-thi...
By the way what sort of HTML tags work in IDC?
a i b img and blockquote afaik
em, strong, i, b, a, and probably others. I think under some settings you can use the img tag.
Just figured out what the rating beside may name is – doh?
This is really cool. .
Bulletproof Vest
Is there a list anywhere of users of Intense Debate or is it a case of serendipity?