Intense Debate Making Significant Improvements

I'd love to get your thoughts on this. If it weren't so much work to recover from the last time I had difficulties with it, I'd try this out immediately.

To review, here's what I liked about it the first time we tried it:

• It's flat-out easy to use. (That is, if the glitches have been fixed, which so far seems to be the case)
• It's free.
• You can track commenters across blogs.
• Word filtering.

In addition, they've added a few other things that I like since I took it down:

• Twitter tracking
• Leave comments on certain blogs without leaving Google Reader (This requires a Firefox add-on called Disqus created by Paul Arturburn, and it has a few issues, at least on a Mac I'm still trying to figure it out)
• Improved interface

For those of you who remember our prior experience (and those of you who are hearing this for the first time), what do you think? Is it time to give Intense Debate (official blog) another shot? - Cam Beck

Props to Nathan Snell for jogging my memory about Intense Debate.

Comments

[Paul Arterburn]

I created that add-on for Google Reader...it's not called Disqus - that's actually the name of IntenseDebate's biggest competitor (http://www.disqus.com). I updated the extension to use Disqus instead of IntenseDebate just yesterday, so that's why you can't see your old comments anymore.

If you are having any issues, update your extension...I made some huge changes the past few days (including a bookmarklet you can now use across browsers):
http://www.sixteenseven.com/comments.htm

[Cam Beck]

Paul - Thank you.

[Nathan Snell]

Hehe, you rock, Cam :)

Needless to say, when I asked for your thoughts, I wasn't expecting such a thorough response ;) Thanks for the time you put into it!