From: Isabell Alcott uv22ealcott@googlemail.com
... if DISQUS change the API or something that mediawiki and DISQUS cant communicate anymore, all the comments might be gone.
We are planning to do a archive page for a 80 yo professor, which should stay for the next 20+ years and so should the comments.
The same might be said for MediaWiki itself -- or of JavaScript, or CSS, or any of a dozen or so technologies involved!
If this is for an archive, I would capture the HTML from a common browser rendering and save that instead.
I tested this DISQUS for several hours now... it dont seem to be very practicable. I posted many comments on one Testsite and after closing Firefox and IE and repointing to the testsite, there are shown "0 Comments". After pointing to "Newest" I see the old comments but still the Counter above stands on zero... it takes 15 minutes or so till the comments are actualized.
This has not been my experience. When I post a comment on our site, it shows up immediately. Try it if you like in our Sandbox page: http://www.EcoReality.org/wiki/Sandbox
Do you have a reliable Internet connection? Sometimes when ours is slow, the comment won't show up until refreshing the page several times. But this is not a Disqus problem.
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