Site Changes – New Commenting System

March 9th, 2009, by The Angry Drunk

In the inter­ests of being lazy, I’ve decided to install the Disqus com­ment sys­tem. I’m sure some­one some­where will have a prob­lem with that, but frankly I don’t care. You all can still post anony­mously in order to tell me what a hor­ri­ble per­son I am, but now you’ll also have the option of using your Disqus or Facebook cre­den­tials to insult me as well.  See, it’s a win for everyone.

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  • thean­gry­drunk

    Testing com­ment do-hicky

  • indiana61

    You are a hor­ri­ble per­son for installing dis­qus. There it’s been said. Now all us cunts can get on with the usual banal com­men­tary. Must say the History Lesson For The Freetards post has been most humor­ous. The expres­sion of fus­tra­tion at times lingers like a stale fart.

  • unalone

    Disqus is ugly, but hey! Threaded com­ments! Life is good.

  • http://www.theangrydrunk.com The Angry Drunk

    Technically the built in WP 2.7 com­ment sys­tem was threaded too, but it wasn’t par­tic­u­larly appar­ent. If a sud­den wave of ennui attacks I’ll look into hack­ing dis­qus to match the old theme.

  • unalone

    This actu­ally isn’t too bad. Used to be Disqus would plas­ter its huge, ugly logo every­where. Now it’s much smaller.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Raymond-Meyers/620407231 Raymond Meyers

    Oh no. I’ve logged in as me. Damn that face­book, any­way.

    I can’t say dirty words now. I have an image to main­tain. Fuck.

  • HROtis

    This, like every­thing about this site, sucks.

  • blind mul­let

    You suck!

  • Gatesbasher

    The com­ment­ing sys­tem is fine either way. My prob­lem lately is that the site has appar­ently gone widescreen only and I’ve got a 3:4 mon­i­tor.

    Short of stretch­ing the screen out until each para­graph is one line and drag­ging it back and forth, the only way I can read the site now is to copy and paste it into TextEdit.

    Is this a hint to buy a new com­puter? Are other sites going to go the same way? At least yours isn’t loaded with Flash abom­i­na­tions, for which I’m grate­ful. Just grum­bling, ignore me if you like.

  • http://www.theangrydrunk.com The Angry Drunk

    That’s odd, I’m using a fluid-width theme, so the con­tent should resize, which it does for me. I never have a browser win­dow more than 1000 pix­els wide and I’m not see­ing any issues. What browser are you using?

  • Gatesbasher

    Safari 2 or Firefox 2 (yeah, I know, it’s time to upgrade.) But I just checked Firefox and all of a sud­den, it works right. So [Emily Litella] Never Mind! [/Emily Litella]

    On Safari, though, I think it’s the fluid width that’s the prob­lem. A few sites occa­sion­ally come up in widescreen, but Safari gives you a scroll­bar so you can just go back and forth. If I try to widen the win­dow here on Safari, though, it resets the type to more than fill it up; unless, as I said, you stretch it out so that each para­graph is a sin­gle line.

    I’m used to hav­ing weird shit hap­pen to me that doesn’t hap­pen to any­body else, so if I can just switch to Firefox, I’m happy. (Well not HAPPY happy, because I hate Firefox!)

  • http://www.theangrydrunk.com The Angry Drunk

    Well, that’s weird. I can’t think of any­thing that would choke Safari 2. But I don’t have that ver­sion to test. I guess it will have to remain a mystery.

  • EricWatson

    Hello, I’m cur­rently cus­tomiz­ing the ba-jesus out of my dis­qus before I install it site wide. I came across you site and I have a quick ques­tion. In yours (Angry Drunk) when you click on your avatar, all your badges dis­play (face­book, Twitter, etc) and you have a tog­gle but­ton to dis­play the oth­ers. How do you set that up like that? How are you appar­ently logged into all of them when you post? I can only seem to log into one at a time. For some rea­son I can’t fig­ure it out. Thanks for your time!

  • http://www.theangrydrunk.com The Angry Drunk

    Eric,
    Good ques­tion since it just took me a non-trivial amount of time to remem­ber how to do it myself.

    If you go to http://​www​.dis​qus​.com and log your­self in. You can then go to the Account tab and then the Services link. From there you can link to the var­i­ous social media sites. It doesn’t actu­ally log you into those ser­vices, it just links them to your Disqus profile.

  • EricWatson

    Perfect — thanks alot — have a good weekend!

  • http://www.visibilityinherit.com EricWatson

    Doing that, uncov­ered a lit­tle bug. Click on my newly cre­ated tog­gle but­ton. See how it just launched you to the top? Yours doesn’t do it because you have more options revealed by the tog­gle — I do not. So I guess I need to add another social media…