Install Disqus on Your Blog - Please
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However, no good reasons are given to use Disqus over CoComment or Intense Debate or Facebook or whatever.
And zero discussion about how there's more to developing a community than simply having a commenting tool.
One - I must admit my own ignorance on the many options. I thought of it as a direct Disqus vs Facebook choice.
Two - I agree there's a lot more to developing a community. Here however, the focus was just on the commenting bit. It wasn't meant to be comprehensive.
And three - I had a posts a few days ago on the approach of copying the best out there and then developing your own style. Here, the best examples taken were Fred Wilson and Mark Suster. My opinion, of course.
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This raises the question of how to engage a reader who has never seen your site and has followed a link to specific post, with no idea if it is part of some larger narrative.
It could get tedious to have to preface every post with, "As you may recall, I previously [link], [link] ..."
I wonder if there's some way to automate that?
If you've been thinking through the ins and outs of getting a community for your site it might be interesting to read a more comprehensive post, something that pulls together the various things you've looked at and done.
I had been looking at different commenting tools for a site of mine, ruby-doc.org. Finally decided on Disqus, partly because I'd some experience with it but more because I knew that a few worthwhile Ruby sites were using it, so I likely posters would also likely have a Disqus account.
If you know that readers of your site are already likely to have an account or something (OpenID perhaps) that works with this or that discussion tool that could be an important factor.
Yeah. I was thinking about context. I guess there is a balance somewhere - assuming that there are the regular readers who have a bit of it, and the new ones who don't quite have it. Still something I'm struggling. Hopeful I'll get better at it (every day etc.. :))
I agree with you on Disqus. Seeing it used a lot by many good bloggers so I went with it as well.
Thanks for taking the time to explain yourself and your point of view. Much appreciated! :)
Best wishes, Rohan