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Sometimes you just have to move on something, or from something to something else. In this case, I have unceremoniously canned IntenseDebate. After having written to their tech support people—after the recent mysterious disappearance of a couple comments—I waited over 24 hours for any response and received not even the usual form response that is automatically kicked out when a user contacts tech support. Seriously, I’m writing this post and thinking, like, Okay… they’ll probably write me back while I’m writing this post. Any minute now. As I write. Uh-huh.
And so but I’ve still not received a response. And it’s all academic now anyway because I’ve disabled and removed the plug-in—I canned it; trashed it; dumped it; chucked it out; tossed it; wasted it; binned it; deleted its presence and erased its map—and then I deleted my blog from the IntenseDebate site. Such a shame it came to it, but there you go. It’s not something I needed to debate intensely. It simply came down to the fact that the system failed me all around and I didn’t want to put a lot of effort into it when it seemed like nothing good was going to come out of it anytime soon.
I apologize to anyone who is in any way inconvenienced by my drop-kicking IntenseDebate. It is my sincerest hope that, all things considered, y’all will be pleased with the replacement I chose: Disqus (pronouned “discuss”). You can now log in to your Facebook or Twitter account to make comments here, which seems fairly cool. I still have to learn a bit about how Disqus works, but it seems like a good replacement for something that failed me utterly. And, btw, I have walked away from this whole experience having learned a valuable lesson: Know Your Options. I should have looked around before installing something that was maybe good, maybe not so good. If I’d looked around I might have found Disqus in the first place. Then again, it may be that I’ll be failed again. I sure hope not, but I’m not so naïve as to assume that Disqus is a panacea just because it’s popular and loads of people use it. If you have any thoughts about Disqus, please share them with me. In the meantime I’ll be checking out just how well it works for me.
Image by -StaR-DusT-
Sometimes you just have to move on something, or from something to something else. In this case, I have unceremoniously canned IntenseDebate. After having written to their tech support people—after the recent mysterious disappearance of a couple comments—I waited over 24 hours for any response and received not even the usual form response that is automatically kicked out when a user contacts tech support. Seriously, I’m writing this post and thinking, like, Okay… they’ll probably write me back while I’m writing this post. Any minute now. As I write. Uh-huh.
And so but I’ve still not received a response. And it’s all academic now anyway because I’ve disabled and removed the plug-in—I canned it; trashed it; dumped it; chucked it out; tossed it; wasted it; binned it; deleted its presence and erased its map—and then I deleted my blog from the IntenseDebate site. Such a shame it came to it, but there you go. It’s not something I needed to debate intensely. It simply came down to the fact that the system failed me all around and I didn’t want to put a lot of effort into it when it seemed like nothing good was going to come out of it anytime soon.
I apologize to anyone who is in any way inconvenienced by my drop-kicking IntenseDebate. It is my sincerest hope that, all things considered, y’all will be pleased with the replacement I chose: Disqus (pronouned “discuss”). You can now log in to your Facebook or Twitter account to make comments here, which seems fairly cool. I still have to learn a bit about how Disqus works, but it seems like a good replacement for something that failed me utterly. And, btw, I have walked away from this whole experience having learned a valuable lesson: Know Your Options. I should have looked around before installing something that was maybe good, maybe not so good. If I’d looked around I might have found Disqus in the first place. Then again, it may be that I’ll be failed again. I sure hope not, but I’m not so naïve as to assume that Disqus is a panacea just because it’s popular and loads of people use it. If you have any thoughts about Disqus, please share them with me. In the meantime I’ll be checking out just how well it works for me.