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

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/30/disqus-joins-the-battle-for-your-blogs-comments/

by immad • 19 years ago

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veritas3• 19 years ago

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.

soundsop2• 19 years ago

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.

veritas3• 19 years ago

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.

zaidf2• 19 years ago

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

danielha• 19 years ago

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?

veritas3• 19 years ago

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.

immad• 19 years ago

thats pretty cool. Well done guys.

ajkates• 19 years ago

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.

sharpshoot• 19 years ago

Yeeeeeeeahhhhh. DISQUS!!! Go 1203...

ivankirigin• 19 years ago

Awesome!

whacked_new• 19 years ago

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

brezina• 19 years ago

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.

herdrick• 19 years ago

Great! Way to go Disqus.

brianr• 19 years ago

I really like the name. Cool service!

looks like the homepage is down right now though :(

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

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