If you’re seeing this post, you’re pointed at the new server. Which is good!
More posts soon, I promise. Not dead.
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Photo by Rob J. Brooks, reused under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
My blog is ten years old today. (Today also roughly marks me having been online for half my life.) I have a lot of navelgazing to do in the body of this post, but to sum it up – if you’re reading this, thank you, from the bottom of my heart.
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The Disqus Challenge
Last night, I conducted a small experiment: I switched the internal Movable Type commenting system for Disqus.
For background: leaving feedback on my blog, I’ve been told repeatedly, has been too difficult and too cumbersome, and so my rate of feedback has plummeted greatly. This has been caused by a chain of inconveniences:
- Years ago, I became fed up with blog spam and wished to have no part of it, and shut off anonymous comments. This is a huge wall for people wishing to leave feedback.
- Movable Type’s login methods are largely grounded in a Javascript wrapper that can be finicky.
- The types of authentication supported – LiveJournal, TypeKey, OpenID – are not nearly as popular as, say, Facebook or Twitter.