{"id":765,"date":"2013-07-03T12:12:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T02:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=765"},"modified":"2013-07-25T16:28:19","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T06:28:19","slug":"can-we-talk-thoughts-on-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/can-we-talk-thoughts-on-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Can we talk? Thoughts on comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rob Beschizza at Boing Boing:<\/p>\n

This evening, we’re going to be saying goodbye to Disqus, our current comment system here at Boing Boing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We’ve opted for Discourse<\/a>, the new forum system created by Jeff Atwood<\/a>, one of the brilliant minds behind Stack Exchange<\/a>, and a small group of similarly talented friends.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s a big move. I think it’s a good idea though, especially for the Boing Boing audience. Go check it out at:\u00a0bbs.boingboing.net<\/a><\/p>\n

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Incidentally, I struggled a lot with how to handle comments here at Reckoner. You might’ve noticed that comments are only enabled for features; that’s intentional.<\/p>\n

I thought about switching off comments entirely, I thought about having them open for everything, I even thought about a forum. In the end, I kept comments, but only for features.<\/p>\n

I see it this way: I think that having comments on the web is useful, but only when we\u2014as writers\u2014have given you something of substance. Something that merits a conversation. Here, my hope is that the comments serve as a useful complement to the article. A place where you can ask the writer a question, or add some extra information on the topic at hand. So far, I think it’s working great.<\/p>\n

Want to comment on a linked list article on Reckoner? Simple: just head to your social network of choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rob Beschizza at Boing Boing: This evening, we’re going to be saying goodbye to Disqus, our current comment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}