A long time ago I added comments onto this blog with Haloscan. Then when I upgraded, I didn't bother to keep the customisation …
Today I read an Uncov post about Disqus that wasn't negative (a miracle for Uncov), so I decided to give it a go.
The default javascript invocation tries to hook to the right comment thread by looking at the current page URL, but this fails badly on my index page. After a little help from the (seemingly brand new) developer forums, I'm now force-feeding the entry URL, converting anchored tags into literals, and life seems good …
~nb/templates/entry.htm
...
<div class="posted">
<br />$template_postedby <span class="item-creator">$NB_EntryAuthor</span>
$([ "$PERMALINKS" = "1" ] && echo '| <a class="link" href="'${ARCHIVES_PATH}$NB_EntryPermalink'">'$template_permlink'</a>')
$([ ! -z "$NB_EntryCategories" ] && echo "| $template_catlinks $NB_EntryCategories" |sed -e '{$ s/\,$//; }')
<div class="commentengine">
<div id="disqus_thread"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var disqus_url = 'http://nb.inode.co.nz/archives/$(echo $NB_EntryPermalink|tr \# \?)';
var disqus_title = '$NB_EntryTitle';
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://disqus.com/forums/notabene/embed.js"></script>
<noscript><a href="http://notabene.disqus.com/?url=ref">View the forum thread.</a></noscript>
</div>
</div>
</div>
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The wierdest things turn out to be really cool …
From http://www.insectpod.com comes … the Carrion Beetle!!
Howard's faourite quote was
As with any healthy relationship, the first thing the young couple must do is hide the body.Mine is the next bit …
Over the next 24 hours, they bury the corpse and dig a crypt around it, stopping to mate, on average, about 70 times. (Ah, newlyweds!)
But wait, what's that underneath?