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I use Disqus on my personal blog for comments. On one of my more popular posts (I got just over 100 comments the first day, so nothing crazy), the comments woul
by JangoSteve 16y ago
I use Disqus on my personal blog for comments. On one of my more popular posts (I got just over 100 comments the first day, so nothing crazy), the comments would disappear after a few hours. If I logged into Disqus, I could still see every comment and they all said they were "approved" and posted. But you'd load the blog post and nothing older than 3 hours would show up.
Wouldn't you know, that post ended up experiencing the Reddit effect, and more comments came pouring in. I tried to contact Disqus, but all I got was a ticket number. Meanwhile, the Reddit users had already started having a field day with, "Steve censors his readers and and deletes comments! We don't like his blog anymore."
Disqus was very slow and unhelpful in resolving the bug, even as I frantically updated the ticket with more and more debugging info and speculation as to what the problem could possibly be. In fact, to this day they've still never fixed the bug or closed out the ticket. Technically, they closed the tickets, but never resolved them (I guess that means, "we got this guy to stop bugging us about this issue... CASE CLOSED").
I ended up having to log into my disqus.com account, copy and paste the comments into an HTML file, then upload the file to my blog and link to it at the bottom of the post.
I understand they're providing a free service and thus have little to no accountability. But when you create a service that asks users to entrust their readers' voices and reputations to you, you should make an honest effort to live up to that responsibility.
[EDIT: Disqus is now helping me to resolve the problem. Better late than never! :-) ]
- giannii 16y agoHey Steve, I'm sorry to hear that you've had a bad experience with our support. What was your ticket number? I'd be more than happy to help you figure this out, shoot me an email here: giannii@disqus.com -Giannii
- JangoSteve 16y agoThanks Giannii. Just so everyone knows, it looks like Giannii and I have gotten this close to solved over IRC now. +1 for Disqus's new support.
- danielha 16y agoThat's awful and I'm sorry. When was this? We've been making changes to how we handle support to better address problems like this and it sucks that you were shafted here. Since Disqus is a service used on sites (and not contained in our own world), our support inquiries come from both website owners and their audiences and involve so many different scenarios. So we need to better educate users on how things work first of all. But that support volume made finding real bug reports or big issues hard (I just posted a HN comment about using our support software earlier today). We've made some changes here though. This also pains me because we try really hard for great interaction with users, even calling up users to help them figure things out. We're definitely closer to a more holistic solution in this area. (P.S. the most likely reason for your issue is perhaps you changed your post's permalink URL so Disqus could no longer find the right association. Still our fault, but that's an explanation if you still care to wonder.)