{"id":671,"date":"2017-02-08T13:24:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T20:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/?p=671"},"modified":"2017-02-09T08:33:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T15:33:28","slug":"weve-changed-our-comment-system-to-disqus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/weve-changed-our-comment-system-to-disqus\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ve Changed Our Comment System to Disqus"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\u00a0<strong>Comments, Comments, Comments<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>As a hipster site, we tried really hard to avoid using Disqus for comments, but we have officially bitten the bullet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Disqus_logo_white_on_blue.svg.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-677\" src=\"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Disqus_logo_white_on_blue.svg-1024x256.png\" alt=\"Disqus\" width=\"800\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Disqus_logo_white_on_blue.svg-1024x256.png 1024w, http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Disqus_logo_white_on_blue.svg-300x75.png 300w, http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Disqus_logo_white_on_blue.svg-400x100.png 400w, http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Disqus_logo_white_on_blue.svg.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As some readers know, Disqus is the most popular comment system for sites like ours. However, we&#8217;re not huge fans of it. We decided to go with Spot.IM for various reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It loads faster<\/li>\n<li>It looks pretty<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s super hipster<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, as time went on, we soon realized that Spot.IM has some major flaws. For one, it doesn&#8217;t show up on Firefox. We have no idea why. Another major problem happened just the other day: a new update to the plugin actually broke comments on our site.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_678\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Spot.IM-Logo.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-678\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-678 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Spot.IM-Logo-1024x409.jpg\" alt=\"Spot.IM\" width=\"800\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Spot.IM-Logo-1024x409.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Spot.IM-Logo-300x120.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Spot.IM-Logo-400x160.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Spot.IM-Logo.jpg 1041w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-678\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We wanted to love you, Spot.IM<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Spot.IM&#8217;s obscurity didn&#8217;t do much to help. There&#8217;s no decent support online, and there&#8217;s little to no documentation at all. It&#8217;s become apparent that Spot.IM is simply poor quality. Goodbye, Spot. We wanted to love you.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re no fans of Disqus, but it&#8217;s better than the alternative. Sorry for deleting all comments up until now. Our bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a hipster site, we tried really hard to avoid using Disqus for comments, but we have officially bitten the bullet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[68,50],"tags":[59,69,54],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":687,"href":"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions\/687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}