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So, my pre­vi­ous post net­ted a lit­tle under 300 page views — but no com­ments (up until an hour or so ago). Why? Because I suf­fered from an epic Fail.

I use a sys­tem called Dis­qus for the com­ments here — I got tired of deal­ing with the absolutely insane amount of spam com­ments not being trapped by Akismet. A lit­tle while ago, I was tin­ker­ing with the options for the blog inte­gra­tion and checked the box “all anony­mous com­ments must be approved/moderated”. This is where I failed.

Word­Press, when a com­ment enters — will send you an email. I’ve never quite real­ized how much I rely on that lit­tle fact. In real­ity, I had a bunch of com­ments spread across a few posts to approve, and didn’t know it.

So, a few hun­dred hits and no com­ments — I went dig­ging for the unap­proved com­ments (disqus.com->dashboard->unapproved) and sure enough, there all the posts are.

Rather than focus on my fail — I’d like to point out that using Dis­qus is a breeze, inte­gra­tion was sim­ple (but may break with some word­press themes) they have a nice API and the entire thing is built with Django!

For peo­ple look­ing for comment/discussion sys­tems, and look­ing to dodge the spam prob­lem, I highly rec­om­mend them.

Now I just want email noti­fi­ca­tion on all com­ments. I found the email on all com­ments set­ting, in your pro­file settings.

So, my pre­vi­ous post net­ted a lit­tle under 300 page views — but no com­ments (up until an hour or so ago). Why? Because I suf­fered from an epic Fail. I...