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Housecleaning: We’ve moved to WordPress comments

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Just a quick note that we’ve moved our comment system to WordPress. You can log in with your WordPress, Twitter or Facebook accounts and you will need manual approval by mods the first time you comment (so prepare to wait a few minutes/hours). Previous stories will continue to contain  previous comment archives.

Why didn’t we go to Disqus or Livefyre? If it was only comments, we probably would have. But we’re building something kind of cool behind the scenes with WordPress and this is just the start.

As always, we read and appreciate your feedback and look forward to hearing your thoughts.

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  1. Herr Dice - 11 years ago

    Good decision :D

  2. omnidragon - 11 years ago

    I like this way better than disqus anyway. :D It’d be better if your email field was actually an email field, though. Makes it easier to type out on a mobile device.

  3. Oh wonderful. So now the 9to5forums are what?

    Last comment-system switch lost most of the 9to5Mac commentors. This will finish off the rest I’m guessing.

    • Seth Weintraub - 11 years ago

      9to5Forums are still 9to5Forums and will continue to be for the immediate future. In the long term, we’re looking at a new, more open way to to do comments and forums.

      We’re hoping that the people who disliked our old system come back to the new system

  4. Brandon Goon - 11 years ago

    I actually do like this aloooooot better

  5. Nice, it looks much better already.

    • Except this lacks a few features: comment editing, voting and reporting.

      • Seth Weintraub - 11 years ago

        Voting is gone for now (boo!) but editing is still possible and reporting hopefully won’t be needed. We were going for reliability and simplicity here.

  6. DubTheDJ - 11 years ago

    I noticed the change last night, but what happens the forums? I liked the way it was worked before, with the badges as awards etc. I like WordPress and all but I kinda liked the old system better.

    • Seth Weintraub - 11 years ago

      Forums will stay the same for the time being. Yes, not elegant having two separate accounts but it will again be streamlined shortly.

      • DubTheDJ - 11 years ago

        Good to hear, this is obviously the best Apple new site on the net and I like to contribute when I can, so good to hear your improving things behind the scenes.

  7. MacUser - 11 years ago

    Thanks look clean..;)

  8. Name Anonymous - 11 years ago

    So there is no password required for the new comments, so there is no real tracking of anyone posting?

    And does that mean our old username/passwords are no longer useful for anything?

    • Seth Weintraub - 11 years ago

      well, if you don’t login with a wordpress/facebook/twitter account your email goes into mod which might take awhile. If you are logged in and have been good in the past it gets approved automatically.

      Old logins and passwords still work on 9to5forums and will for the immediate future.

  9. Mirek - 11 years ago

    New comments seem alright :)

  10. Ezhik - 11 years ago

    Test. How do I remove that stupid toolbar at the top?

  11. mrllaccount66 - 11 years ago

    Cool. It looks. And loads much faster on iOS and Android

  12. Ashley Best (@DarkAshNet) - 11 years ago

    Finally! Vanilla was awful and so slow.

  13. Nayer Hany - 11 years ago

    Looks clean and nice! Thumbs up!

  14. Mark Gurman - 11 years ago

    Sweet!

  15. Thank god! First comment I’ve been able to leave in over a year.

  16. danbridgland - 11 years ago

    Anything that allows comments from an iOS device gets two thumbs up from me.

  17. theyayarealiving - 11 years ago

    Awesome! Thanks!

  18. Mat K Hall - 11 years ago

    Much better.

  19. Jon Brown (@jb510) - 11 years ago

    As one of the very vocal voices encouraging the JetPack team to clone commenting off of WordPress.com and into JetPack it makes me happy to see comment heavy media adopting it. I really think its the most clean and simple enhanced commenting module for WP. I like disqus too, but its such bloat and annoying to use as a users. Good move 9to5 and 10up.

  20. Gary Lum - 11 years ago

    Excellent. I like WordPress comments over the others.

  21. John B. Abela - 11 years ago

    You get a thumbs-up from me for using the WP commenting system and NOT using Disqus/Livefyre!!

  22. bobyey - 11 years ago

    Nice I like the switch.

  23. Nice change. (Also using this as my first comment so I can be authenticated)

  24. Aaron Renner - 11 years ago

    Awesome change! Half the time, I couldn’t get the old system to even show up, and when it did, it would never let me comment.

  25. Ari - 11 years ago

    thank god! finally i can comment on this site easily! i always had a lot of problems with the old comments!

  26. Steve Lawrence - 11 years ago

    Good decision. This will make the site comments way busier guaranteed.

  27. Kevin Wrightsman - 11 years ago

    Nice!

  28. Jim Krenz (@Lecter) - 11 years ago

    Congratulations on improving the comments sydstem!

  29. Jeremy Bohn (@76jer) - 11 years ago

    Doesn’t render correctly on my iPhone. The “log in to reply” button is partly blocking the username in each comment.

  30. jacksonhenneyyy - 11 years ago

    Saw it last night, thought it was because I had signed into WordPress [Did it for the first time since… Since pre-Vanilla comments!]

    I like it a lot better :)

  31. Jurgis Ĺ alna - 11 years ago

    Nice. I’ve lost so many comments because of failed logins.
    Also, has anyone noticed that occasionally some article pictures wouldn’t load?

  32. joelbalderas - 11 years ago

    Nice.

  33. Mark Mullin (@Hawkeye_Mo) - 11 years ago

    I have found I can post an ‘original’ comment with my Twitter account as I have here, but it doesn’t maintain my login and if I wish to reply within a comment posted by someone else is requires that I log in with a WordPress account. Is this just a bug being worked out, hopefully?

  34. Luke Mansell - 11 years ago

    I’ve always much preferred WordPress comments, they look a lot nicer!

  35. jonnikuest (@jonnikuest) - 11 years ago

    Weird. I can use twitter to leave comments via desktop, but on mobile it only lets me login using WordPress.com, which i’d rather not associate with my personal comments on 9to5. Any ideas for this?

  36. rahhbriley - 11 years ago

    I’m late to the party….been on vacation. I’m kinda bummed to be honest. I understand it may have been for the best but its discouraging to lose the badges, number of comments, up/down vote, etc. I’m sure I’ll get over it but I think I’ll be less inclined to comment for awhile. Obviously 9to5’s comments are up after the switch so that’s a good thing, hopefully encouraging better conversation.

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