Fred Seibert's Blog

Good news (I hope). You no longer need to register to comment on Frederator Blogs.

A few people have been sniping at me at the change in our comments system a few months ago. We added Disqus  (pronounced ‘discuss’) after checking it out at the suggestion of our Tumblr friends, and realized it was a powerful way of not only for commenters to start a conversation directly with each other, but an easy way for them to discover other people in a wider community of blogs they might want to start reading.

That said, I probably made it a little harder to use than necessary by insisting that everyone register at Disqus before they could post. Aside from the folks that got confused, the extra step discouraged at lot of people from participating at all. That’s why the change.

Hope this makes it easier, and fun-ner, to be a part of our blog community. Please let me know.

–Fred

For those of you who comments on Frederator’s blogs, you might notice something new. “Powered by Disqus” (that is, Dis-Cuss). From their own page:

“With Disqus, your readers aren’t just leaving comments — they’re participants in a discussion that you’ve started.

“This is made possible with threaded conversations that are easy to follow and join.

“And, of course, it integrates right within your blog.

“Commenters on the go? Receive and reply to the discussion from anywhere with email and mobile posting.”

There are already a couple of issues we’re working to resolve (right now, we don’t show the number of comments under a post), but hopefully we’ll have them fixed soon.

Will it work better for you? For us? Who knows? I certainly hope so. Please, let us know what you think.

PS: As with the conversion of our blogs over to Wordpress, I want to thanks Nate Olsen, Michael Lee, and Jeremy Kutner for helping us get this thing together. And David Karp and Marco Arment at Tumblr for suggesting it in the first place.