A bunch of people have told me they have had trouble commenting here lately. I’m going to attempt to fix the problem this weekend. If you’ve had issues commenting, please email me at blaghagblog(at)gmail(dot)com. To help me out, please include:
- What browser you’re using
- If you have anything like Adblock enabled
- How you’re attempting to login (blogger, twitter, facebook, disqus, etc)
- Exactly what sort of problem you’re having. Can you not log in? Are you clicking post and it’s never loading? Can you not edit posts? Does disqus open a portal to the nether-dimension? Let me know.
Sorry for everyone who’s been having issues. I blame Disqus, but I’ll try to fix it.
If you had issues either here or at your own blog but found ways to fix them, please let me know that too!
I seem to have no problem using Firefox 3.6.10 for Linux, with Adblock enabled, and NoScript running (but your site and Disqus allowed to run scripts), posting with email address and name rather than logging in through a social media site.
Giving it a go
For a while I had trouble logging in through Facebook on Firefox 3.0.11 on a Mac, but the problem seems to have disappeared a while ago.What happened was I would write a comment, apparently logged in, and then when I went to post it I’d have to log in for real and Disqus would freeze. Refreshing the page helped, if memory serves. Again, though, haven’t had problems lately.
I’m using Internet Explorer 8 under Windows Vista at home & XP at work. I can’t leave a comment or even see the comments if I have InPrivate filtering turned on.
I haven’t had problems – aside from being moderated out of existence the other day. My bad, I’m sure.
Using FireFox 3.6.10 and Windows XP. Abou7t 50% of the time, the comments don’t load and I have to refresh a few times before it shows up.
I haven’t had problems posting, but disquis is no longer listing my post history.
… except that now it apparently is. >_< Nevermind?
I’ve never had a problem.I use Disqus. From home I’m on FF (newest version) on Windows 7 64 bit.From work I use Safari 5.0.1 on OS X 10.6.4.
no problems here?EDIT: seems so!
1. Firefox.2. I use AdBlock.3. I log onto Disqus.4. I can log in, and when I submit the comment it appends to the comments list. But when I come back five minutes later, my comment is gone.
Disqus seems to use a fairly unusual scheme where the page contains no comment content in HTML, but then some Javascript runs and loads the comments after the page is displayed (the advantage, I guess, is that it’s really easy to embed their stuff).So, Javascript support is crucial. I’m not surprised there’s trouble with IE sometimes; IE has it’s own mutant variant of Javascript which needs to be coded for differently, and it’s not unusual for Javascript to be disabled in IE due to security paranoia. You should also be aware that JS runs slow on IE, *very* slow relative to Chrome and more recent Firefox. Much of this is supposed to be fixed or improved in IE 9, BTW, but since that won’t run on XP, and typical upgrade rates for IE are low (a lot of people are still using IE6!), I don’t know that it will help that much. I’ve never had any trouble with Disqus using Firefox 3.6 or Chrome under linux. Actually, the IE6 may be part of the problem — Disqus may not work with IE6 at all.There’s a Javascript compliance test here: http://acid3.acidtests.org/ Unlike most web pages it makes no effort to cater to all the non-standard JS issues in IE, so bear that in mind when IE fails it horribly.So IE users, don’t you think you should be using a browser that’s up-to-date and standards compliant, and can handle cool things like these (in addition to Jen’s cool comments page):http://www.graphycalc.com/http://mrdoob.com/projects/chr…See http://www.chromeexperiments.c… for more. And these work in recent Firefox too, not just Chrome. On older FF they may work, but really slowly.
And, here’s one just for Boobquake: http://www.graphycalc.com/#exp…Ooh, check out the bivariate normal distributions on that one…
The only issue I’ve been having with Disqus is that it doesn’t display the number of comments that the post has until you are on that posts’ specific page.
I’m seeing the number when I look at the main page. For you does it just have a link that says ‘Comments’? Because that’s what’s in the HTML, but then it seems magic Javascript pixies are supposed to change it to ’24 Comments’ or whatever.
I’ve managed to comment using both Firefox 4.0 (with Adblock) and Chrome, on Ubuntu. :)
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I haven’t had any problems posting – I’m using Chrome on XP. Of course, I’m not trying to go through any special sites, just posting with email and name.
It says 0 comments for each post, regardless of how many comments there may or may not be…then when you click on the post title, the comments are shown and counted…
as a “popular” blogger, there’s only one way i’ve found to mostly eliminate commenting complaints. which is: totally run your own blog, from balls to bones, and be a bit of an IT geek at that, in the sense that you know (way more than me) enough about how to make a website work, and have the time to manage it, basically 24/7. sorry, but that’s really the only way. otherwise, you depend on someone else to run your comments. as a frequent commenter as well as blogger, i recognize and appreciate that, and it grants me patience. only people trying to make a living off their own blogs have the time to create a flawless commenting community. everybody else has to rely on someone else’s technology. which is to say: corporate crap. even some Famous Bloggers on the A-List rely on others to run the commenting systems that keep them in food and a roof over their heads.jskit/echo is the Worst. it’s worse than Haloscan, which really sucked (thanks, Google, for the “upgrade!” not). Disquss is marginally better, but requires all that login bullshit. blogger, old and new, are OK, but for some reason the blogosphere let itself be convinced that “it wasn’t good enough” and mostly switched to the previous three. drupal is fine, but takes a lot of tech expertise. facebook is “exclusive” and won’t let non-users even see content, let alone post. others are probably developing some similar evil, i just don’t know of those yet as the only blogging i do is political, not entertainment or otherwise based. the point is that like in so many elements of our society right now, it’s mostly a choice of “the lesser of evils.” i use an old Mac, with an old operating system, and an old version of safari i can’t upgrade due to financial reasons. if a blog won’t work on that, well. i guess i won’t read it. i recently had an old PC “upgraded” as best it could be, so i could use some newer sites, but i hate PCs and basically this machine will only be used for Netflix and the few commercial sites i go to. i had a conversation recently with a smart computer expert friend of mine and he agrees: the Microsoft model of “constant” “upgrading” will fail and die. why? because just as people are finding they can’t pay for their mortgages nor find new jobs, etc., they won’t be able to justify $2K/yr in “upgrades” that do little than make things more complicated and difficult. commenting is just an extension of that reality. the destruction of the American middle class means so much. it also means the end of false luxury like the ability to arbitrarily change software and hardware every six months, just because some salesman at best buy says we should, “to stay current.” i’m ahead of the curve on this one, but i’m pretty sure i’m not wrong.
oh, and for what it’s worth: i have no trouble comment on this blog, on my old PC nor on my old Mac. thanks for Keepin it Real, Jen. then again, i do have a disqus account, which i got solely for the sake of you and Shakesville. someday i probably won’t adopt a new “update” of D just for you two, just sayin.
Test comment to see if it works for me.
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I dont’ have any problems commenting from my PC running windows 7 and firefox. I do get an annoying email from discus everytime I comment here though. I _do_ get an immense hassle when I try to comment from my IMac (some version of OSX) and safari. It won’t let me place a comment unless I agree to let discus post all my Yahoo profile activity publicly. This is odd, sinceI’m usually logged in under my google ID at the time. For that matter, my google ID is registered with open ID, which discus allegedly is part of, so it shouldn’t be asking me for any info at all.Here’s a suggestion jen, How about you just shitcan discus altogether and go with the Blogger comment utility? I’ve had my blog set up that way for years, as does every other person I read with a Blogger account (except yours). Is there some reason you _need_ discus? As far as I can see, it’s just another version of grouply, and fuck that……
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