Intense Debate's Commenting System Out Of Beta And Very Open
While we covered the service’s private beta previously, stepping out of beta is more than just opening up their sign ups. They’re opening up their entire commenting system as well.
The upgrade still includes Intense Debate’s original comment enhancements including threaded comments, spam control, a reputation system, rich user profiles, and ability to track user’s comments across all Intense Debate enabled blogs. It features some cosmetic enhancements, such as a comment skin that automatically matches your blogs color scheme and the option for users to expand or contract comments on a blogs main page, instead of clicking through to a dedicated page. All together, it’s a much richer offering than SezWho, which focuses mainly on maintaining user reputation and not syndication and networking.
Disqus and Intense Debate offer very similar commenting systems. The big difference is that Disqus incorporates a forum into the blog as well. However, Intense Debate’s user profile system seems further along than Disqus. It lets users see who visited their profile, link to other social networks, and a frequent commentor widgets. Both could benefit from inter-operating with each other. Which one is better for blogs is really a decision best left to individual blog owners.
You can try their comment system after the jump…
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var idcomments_acct = \\\’fa64964926b986792cf5ea46174f9fdc\\\’;var idcomments_post_id = \\\’1\\\’;var idcomments_post_url; var idcomments_post_title;