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WordPress – An Icon Of Its Time

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  1. deuts (7 comments.) says:

    Re: Intense Debate; In as much as I would like to use the service, I encountered some issues.
    1. I encountered importing errors while doing the import. I’m not sure, maybe their servers are clogged due to the many people doing the import.
    2. I had problems modifying the style. My theme used small fonts, and I just couldn’t get intense debate texts to appear the same. I’m afraid the custom css is not working.
    3. I really don’t have so much comments in my blog to promote the intensity of the debates, so maybe I better switch to the built-in wordpress commenting system.
    4. I don’t know how it interfaced with akismet in fighting spam, especially if you already have akismet installed. A question arises, if one installs intense debate in his/her wordpress blog, does he have to uninstall akismet or not?

    • Otto (215 comments.) says:

      Intense Debate basically replaces your comment system entirely. So you no longer need Akismet or anything else like that, since you no longer receive the comments directly. Instead, they go to ID’s servers and are really held there. I’m sure they use Akismet internally, or some other spam prevention mechanism.

      The import problems are the same I had when originally testing the service, and their sync feature leaves a bit to be desired. At one point, a few months back, all the comments on my blog got duplicated, but with a 1 hour time zone difference. Little things like that made me decide not to use ID for my own personal site. I can see the usefulness of a centralized comments system, but I personally prefer to keep my own content fully under my own control. And with 2.7’s comments system enhancements, there’s not a lot that ID really has to offer me.

  2. Nicolas (25 comments.) says:

    Hi Jeff,

    there’s a video of your pick. Check it out here:
    http://www.techlyzer.com/2008/.....-released/

  3. Niyaz (6 comments.) says:

    this is a nice article – 10 Tip Optimization Guide … thanks for the info



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