Pick one: Disqus vs IntenseDebate

September 21, 2009 7:35 PM

Pick one: Disqus vs IntenseDebate. I'm running Wordpress and need a new commenting system

This question has been pinging around for sometime now on the web, but both parties have been consistently upgrading their service so all the old arguments are moot. I'd like to fall back on the ever reliable Metafilter community to help me with this decision.

posted by friedbeef to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

When I made the decision to buy IntenseDebate it was because I know it was something we (Automattic) wanted to invest in and enable ID for all 8 million blogs on WordPress.com. As such a lot of the focus has been on underlying infrastructure, scalability, sync (IMO the best of any of the options), and graceful degradation of the service if, Murphy forbid, it were ever to go down.

Like WordPress, IntenseDebate has a plugin system and there's where a lot of the new functionality is going to be focused in the future.
posted by saxmatt at 7:55 PM on September 21, 2009 [1 favorite]

Intense Debate. It is owned by Wordpress, has a great plugin, great features, and will see new development. For a third option check out Echo. I haven't used it, but the promise is great.
posted by avex at 8:16 PM on September 21, 2009

I can't stand Disqus. A lot of blogs I comment on use it and it has this problem (one some of them) where I leave a comment, but am unable to see others' comments unless I go back to the original post/permalink and reload the page. Horrible interface, imo.
posted by mattbucher at 11:01 AM on September 22, 2009