Comments

In an attempt to make this tumblelog in to a more “traditional” blog, I’ve installed Disqus, to enable commenting, and I’m going to start writing a few longer posts with actual content. This post will serve as a commenting test.

Thoughts on Disqus so far:

• It was easy to integrate the Disqus Javascript into my template.
• It would be nice to see what classes I have available to style without having to dig through the DOM. Maybe there’s a styling FAQ on the Disqus site, to be honest, I haven’t looked for one.There’s a page on the Disqus wiki explaining custom CSS.
• I’d like to be able to turn more features off. That’s probably wierd, but I’d like to hide the sorting options, “community page” link, and the reply/edit/more section, leaving just a flat list of comments and the submit box. This is something I’ll be looking into! I’ve managed to get it looking and working more or less how I want.

No doubt I’ll be tweaking things slightly as time goes on, but I’m happy so far.