{"id":5756,"date":"2013-05-11T11:30:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T01:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=5756"},"modified":"2013-05-14T20:31:35","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T10:31:35","slug":"moving-to-disqus-a-very-long-painful-false-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/moving-to-disqus-a-very-long-painful-false-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving to Disqus &#8211; A Very Long, Painful, False Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;\">If you regularly visit the blog then you might have noticed that I have changed the comments to use Disqus instead of the standard WordPress commenting system. I liked the idea of comment integration and the ability to continue discussions on other sites and thought I&#8217;d give it a try.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Signing up for an account was easy enough as was installing the appropriate plugin for WordPress. Syncing comments with Disqus was also a snap requiring just a single click. It was rather effortless to say the least and I thought I was close to seeing everything up and running.<\/p>\n<p>How wrong I was.<\/p>\n<p>Jump forward 48 hours and Disqus hasn&#8217;t even started to process any blog comments for the site. To their credit, Disqus does have a <a title=\"Service Status | Disqus\" href=\"http:\/\/status.disqus.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">service status page<\/a>\u00a0with a <a title=\"Importer Problem | Disqus\" href=\"http:\/\/status.disqus.com\/service\/importer\/last-event\/\" target=\"_blank\">problem noted with the importer since April 3rd<\/a>. Not exactly a fantastic situation and I don&#8217;t fancy whatever Disqus considers &#8220;shortly&#8221; in terms of a timeframe &#8211; six days since the acknowledgement of the problem and it has not caught up.<\/p>\n<p>To be honest, I&#8217;m on the verge of pulling the plug on Disqus before it has gotten a go on the site. I could re-enable WordPress comments but then I would have to sync that and then wait for that delta to resync again. Perhaps not a big deal in the grand scheme of things but if I can&#8217;t even get comments into Disqus then it really diminishes my faith in the platform to perform well over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you regularly visit the blog then you might have noticed that I have changed the comments to use Disqus instead of the standard WordPress commenting system. I liked the idea of comment integration and the ability to continue discussions on other sites and thought I&#8217;d give it a try. Signing up for an account &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/moving-to-disqus-a-very-long-painful-false-start\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[2060,703],"class_list":["post-5756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-disqus","tag-wordpress","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Disqus-Logo.png?fit=256%2C256&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}