i did mention it in passing, in my post yesterday, but it really deserves a post of its own.

what an absolute steaming POS disqus is! - i’ve tried about half a dozen times now to migrate my comments from wordpress via blogger to tumblr, utilising disqus and its promise of making your comments acccessible from wherever you choose to lay your bloggin heid. i’ve spent literally hours, trying every possible combination of settings and ‘tools’ on the disqus site -all to no avail.  the closest i got to success was that some of my comments briefly appeared on some of my posts but, it was a fleeting moment of success and they soon disappeared again.

the frustration of wrestling with this crap is not helped by the fact that disqus’s own fecking tools dinnae even work;  their wordpress plugin bummed out with an error every time, after exporting a few comments - forcing me to manually import an XML file onto their hidden manual import page.  their migration ‘wizard’ [migration fuckwitt more like!] disnae work either and, as i said before, comments appear and disappear seemingly at random.

at the moment, when i log into disqus i can see all of my comments listed twice, but even this surfeit of uninformed opinion is not enough to register on the blog.  every post still has a stubborn ‘0 comments’ underneath.

well, i’m giving up now.

hopefully disqus will at least manage to do one thing right and manage my comments from now on, but it looks like the previous ones are lost in the blackhole that is the disqus API.  so, apologies to anyone who’s taken the time to comment in the past.

at least i now know why they chose the name disqus - after two days of wrestling with this crap, i feel like throwing it as far away from me as i possibly can!