New Commenting System

After investigating the very recent changes to the service I was using for hosting this website's comments, I found their new service to be . . . terrible. Seven days ago the company I was using completely changed their commenting features. Typically this involves refining or expanding features (which would have been fine), but this particular company decided to get rid of almost all of their good features and replace them with marketing hype. So after several hours of thought and work, I've redone this website to work with a new commenting service named Disqus (pronounced discuss).

As of today the Disqus page replaces the old "Discuss" page. Most of you have not added any comments yet, but for those of you that have, you'll need to resubmit. If you made a longish comment then just email me and I can send you the full content of your previous comments.

By far the best way to submit a comment is to first create a Disqus profile. This is very easy as you'll only have two options when adding a comment for the first time: comment as a guest or comment via a Disqus profile. To create a profile click on the DProfile link (see screenshot below).

When you click on the DProfile link up will pop a registration window! You don't even need to go to another website. Here's what it looks like:


The advantage of using a Disqus profile is that it will subsequently be easy to track the various comments of any given person in the class.

I'll briefly discuss the positive features of Disqus at our first class, but amongst those key features is the ability to sort comments, subscribe by email to the complete commenting thread (a big feature), to submit new comments via email, the ability to edit and remove comments, and more. Check it all out at:

disqus section link