Software Blog: Disqus

Posted under: Web Development

This post is part of a series exploring my migration from Sitefinity 3 to 4.4. Some of this information may become obsolete as newer versions are released. Always watch the official Sitefinity website for the latest info.

The final step in migrating this site from Sitefinity 3 was to restore the Disqus comments on my blog. As I mentioned sometime ago, I replaced the Sitefinity comments with Disqus and have used it ever since.

Unfortunately, Disqus uses the Url as the identity key for each discussion. As I've mentioned throughout this series of migration posts, I am using the ...

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Posted under: Miscellaneous

Things continue to be busy, but I'm doing my best to make time for this site and my various projects. At long last I FINALLY installed Disqus to manage comments for the blog and software posts

Best of all, after a few frustratingly productive hours of hacking the Disqus API, I managed to import all my Sitefinity comments into Disqus! This was actually a fun project, but man was it a pain in the ass trying to hack that poorly-documented, unfriendly API.

I have every intention of publishing my work, most likely as a module in the Sitefinity Marketplace...

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