@john: We don’t hate any of our competitors, but we have to prioritize among which platforms we support importing. Right now, platforms like WordPress or Blogger are so much bigger than any of our competitors, that we’ve chosen to focus on these only for a while.

@Rick Beckman: Comments are stored on the IntenseDebate servers, that’s true, but they’re also synced back to your WP database as soon as there’s a new comment posted! This means you don’t have to worry about losing your comments.

@photoTristan: We’ve talked before, and I hear you. The feedback you’re giving us is invaluable. Donncha as well as you complained about the signed up username not linking to your blog anymore, so we’re actually removing it in the next release! I hope we can tempt you back soon..

@Jose HC: IntenseDebate has spread thanks to word-of-mouth and by us being able to promote signing up from within the comment system. However, as we’re getting bigger, it becomes harder to justify this promotion. Therefore, in an upcoming release, we’re removing the “Get better comments link” as well as the option ti sign up while posting a comment. All to declutter the interface and be in the service of the blog publisher.

@KNizam: IntenseDebate is a Javascript plugin, and thus it can never be quite as fast as the rest of your blog. At the end of the day, we’re basically a widget .. a HUGE widget. Therefore we’ve made it so that we always load as the last thing on your permalink page, just so that we don’t slow down the rest of the page. So IntenseDebate might seem overly slow, but it’s partially because we kindly wait in the back of the line and wait our turn, simply because most people will want to read the content before responding to it.

Thanks for the feedback all of you. This, if anything, helps us improve and prioritize. Feel free to contact us at support@intensedebate.com if you have further questions or concerns, we’re always happy to help.

There are a few minor things I don’t like about it such as the lack of styling options. But it rocks for threaded commenting and comment rating.

I’m definitely going to have to look into Intense Debate again!

sad.