I know, I know. You hate change. You loved DISQUS. You were all set up there. I get it.
But listen y’all – we’ve been getting a bunch of complaints about the fact that weird pop-up ads have been showing up, and our tech team believes that the DISQUS ads are the culprit. So we’ve disabled DISQUS commenting from our site, in favor of Spot IM commenting.
Some of you have had to disable your ad blocker just to VIEW comments with DISQUS, and that shouldn’t be an issue with this new commenting system. For those reasons, we’ve decided to give Spot IM a try, which is the same base system used by Fox News and other trusted sites. It’s got all the same features you’ve grown to love and appreciate about DISQUS, only it seems to even have more ease and functionality, so we have high hopes for it. Bonus – it’s reportedly better at filtering spam comments, which is awesome.
In any case, I know some of y’all will be mad, but listen – the positives outweigh the negatives here. And if it’s a miserable failure, we’ll switch back. But we need to see if the change addresses the issues we’ve been having lately.
We talked about this and other things in a Facebook live video earlier today as well:
Anyway – there it is. Enjoy. Or don’t. But that’s what’s happening. 🙂
UPDATE: I’m aware of still photos not posting/disappearing after being posted, and also aware of folks who still need to turn off adblocker in order to view comments. Will try to work on any glitches to the best of our ability – keep in mind this is all new to us too and we are learning as we go! Glad to see so many folks like the change!
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January 22, 2019I know, I know. You hate change. You loved DISQUS. You were all set up there. I get it.
But listen y’all – we’ve been getting a bunch of complaints about the fact that weird pop-up ads have been showing up, and our tech team believes that the DISQUS ads are the culprit. So we’ve disabled DISQUS commenting from our site, in favor of Spot IM commenting.
Some of you have had to disable your ad blocker just to VIEW comments with DISQUS, and that shouldn’t be an issue with this new commenting system. For those reasons, we’ve decided to give Spot IM a try, which is the same base system used by Fox News and other trusted sites. It’s got all the same features you’ve grown to love and appreciate about DISQUS, only it seems to even have more ease and functionality, so we have high hopes for it. Bonus – it’s reportedly better at filtering spam comments, which is awesome.
In any case, I know some of y’all will be mad, but listen – the positives outweigh the negatives here. And if it’s a miserable failure, we’ll switch back. But we need to see if the change addresses the issues we’ve been having lately.
We talked about this and other things in a Facebook live video earlier today as well:
Anyway – there it is. Enjoy. Or don’t. But that’s what’s happening. 🙂
UPDATE: I’m aware of still photos not posting/disappearing after being posted, and also aware of folks who still need to turn off adblocker in order to view comments. Will try to work on any glitches to the best of our ability – keep in mind this is all new to us too and we are learning as we go! Glad to see so many folks like the change!
Mockarena