On Friday, I revealed we would upgrade our commenting system. It was evaluated over the weekend, as well as eventually I have chose to go back to the wordpress system.  right here are the reasons why:

1. Our old comments never got transitioned over.

The intenseDebate system states I can just click a single button as well as it will import our old messages into the new system.  I did this Friday as well as the page never moved from 0%. I tried once again Saturday night, with the 0% import still there this morning(Monday). Our old messages just never imported. I don’t understand if it was since our database of comments was so big (I question it) or what. I went to get in touch with their support, however discovered them out for the weekend. That’s no huge deal, however I question if the importer was a handbook thing as well as nobody was there to do it? If so, they ought to most likely put a cautioning on the importer page.

2. It wasn’t failing gracefully.

I had numerous emails as well as comments stating that the comments were not showing when people were utilizing script blockers, or specific android devices. The intenseDebate site declares that their system will show comments even if somebody is utilizing a script blocker. I did not personally test this, as well as frankly I don’t have to. even if those people are mistaken or have peculiar setups, I just can’t disregard complaints that our material isn’t even showing.

3. I couldn’t broaden all replies by default, or perhaps I’m an idiot.

I didn’t see an choice anywhere to screen all comment threads broadened by default. perhaps I just overlooked it. perhaps there’s some css technique to it. We have to have our comments expanded. frequently there is much more helpful info in the comments than the short article itself. With replies nested you would have to go with as well as click every single thread just to see if there was anything useful. This is such an apparent function that I’m persuaded I just went dumb for a while as well as didn’t checked out the button that enabled it, certainly they didn’t omit it.

For these 3 reasons, I eliminated it.  just like they stated it would, it came out without any issue.