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S '07 YC startup launches: Disqus Joins The Battle For Your Blog's Comments

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I've enjoyed reading the comments on Fred Wilson's blog much more since he implemented disqus. Maybe we can get Arrington to implement disqus as well so I don't have to read any more comments from Fake Steve Balmer.

Interesting... IntenseDebate also launched today.

TechStars and YC are neck and neck in this space.

To the Disqus guys:

1. On your home page, the logo should be clickable.

2. The logo should always take me back to the home page... sometimes it dumps me in the Disqus forum.

3. The paging links say "Next Next", instead of just "Next"

4. It's probably just me, but the background puts me off a little.

According to Jakob Nielsen at http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20031110.html (see #10), the home-page logo should not be clickable.

Even though the advice is 4 years old, I don't see a reason to violate it.

*Edited for better formatting.

Hmm interesting. I'm just used to it I suppose. Sometimes instead of refreshing to see if something has changed, I just click the logo by habit.

But, I concede the point.

That's what I do as well. And if the logo is not clickable, I feel that something is not right.

ditto

As much as I am a Nielsen fanboy, I wouldn't hesitate violating that rule of his.

Why? What purpose does it serve to have a logo on a home page be a link back to the home page?

The only reason I can think of is consistency across the rest of the site.

I take that back. I thought this was about a clickable logo in general--not about the homepage specifically.

I guess it is ok to not have the logo linking to the homepage from the homepage itself. (Though there are certain sites that I like to have open and click on the logo to refresh the content.)

1. I didn't know the Jacob Nielson point, but I'll side with that. ;)

2. It does. The logo you are clicking is on our forum and is our forum header. This naturally takes you back to the forum index.

3. Oops, caching problem.

4. The background color?

Yep, the background color. It's a little dull, but that's just my personal preference. So I don't know what other feedback you've gotten, but take what I say with a grain of salt.

EDIT:

Also on pages like this one: http://disqus.com/people/danielha the text of the comment and the box on the right (points, replies) overlap sometimes. Minor quirk, but work getting fixed.

And you might want to make the green arrow (on hover) a bit more noticeable... kinda like the red arrow for voting down.

Sorry for all the cosmetic feedback, but I haven't gotten around to creating an account to give technical feedback/bugs.

It's definitely very cool, and useful. Something I can't live without? Certainly not. Still, I think the idea was well-implemented and wonderfully executed.

Last time I saw it, intensedebate seemed to be very well executed, but disqus is a way better name. Way, way better.

I really like the name. Cool service!

looks like the homepage is down right now though :(

Yeeeeeeeahhhhh. DISQUS!!! Go 1203...

Great! Way to go Disqus.

thats pretty cool. Well done guys.

Awesome!

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