{"id":5821,"date":"2013-05-24T11:30:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T01:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=5821"},"modified":"2013-05-23T20:04:55","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T10:04:55","slug":"disqus-dampening-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/disqus-dampening-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Disqus Dampening Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"

A while back I wrote about the issues I experienced migrating blog comments<\/a>\u00a0into Disqus – it took roughly a week for the process to finish. Unfortunately, that was beyond the 24 – 48 hour window estimated by Disqus due to a high volume of traffic. In fact, the status page<\/a>\u00a0still has the same delay notification on it with the advise that they are working to get it caught up shortly.<\/p>\n

\"Disqus<\/a>

Disqus Service Status Page<\/p><\/div>\n

Hmmmm, yeah.<\/p>\n

After the cutover had finished I was keen to try out some of the functionality available in Disqus which looked rather interesting. However, there was another problem.<\/p>\n

Nobody was commenting.<\/p>\n

This site isn’t up there with the likes of Facebook or Wikipedia but I would have a steady trickle of comments most days but they completely dried up after switching to Disqus. I figure that people don’t fancy having to signup for the service and to be honest I don’t blame them. So, I have switched off Disqus and put it all back the way it was beforehand.<\/p>\n

It will be interesting to see how things go from here on in!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A while back I wrote about the issues I experienced migrating blog comments\u00a0into Disqus – it took roughly a week for the process to finish. Unfortunately, that was beyond the 24 – 48 hour window estimated by Disqus due to a high volume of traffic. In fact, the status page\u00a0still has the same delay notification … <\/p>\n

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],"class_list":["post-5821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-disqus","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\/5821","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=5821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5821\/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=5821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}