Disqus And Typepad

San Francisco: Reading that Fred Wilson and Union Square Ventures have invested in Discus, led me to create an account and try to fool with this richer commenting system.

I logged in, said I was using Typepad, and immediately discovered that I would have to convert my templates to the ‘advanced’ flavor if I want to go there.

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }

In principle, I am willing to do this, but man, once you cross that line into converting your templates all sorts of things don’t work the same; most specifically, all the automatic inclusion of plugins goes away.

If I am going to do this, I will have to think about it for a while, and test it on a trial blog.

Would be a lot nicer if they had a Typepad supported plugin.