This morning I got an email from Intensedebate asking for feedback. Well, I thought of turning this into a post.

The good news is that I like the idea and the current implementation. But, nobody is perfect, at least in the early stages, and here is my wish list:

• I like the fact that they promote the fact that you can leave their service and take the comments with you. This means freedom and is important. But the sad part is there are no tutorials or tools on how to do this. I am aware that technically this is not possible for Blogger based blogs, but they can build up some wordpress tools.
• Comments provide feedback to blog owners. But more than that they provide unique content for search engines. Due to the fact that Intensedebate is javascript based this factor dissapears. Again. Make a php script for WP blogs.
• Search. Where is the freakin search on my Intensedebate account?
• Details about the commenters. Wordpress gives me the IP of a commenter. A service like Intensedebate can offer more than that (IP/Country/Browser etc)
• Create ghosts accounts for those that are not already users. This implies that an account is created for each person based on his email address. By doing that a ghost account can be claimed through email validation
• Give me an option to stay logged in. I hate logging in every day.

This are a few things that came up in my mind. I’ll add more if I remember any. I am very aware that the things I’ve listed are not a piece of cake. But this is what I want
P.S. Please guys pay attention to the javascript. I had 2 sites down for a few hours because of that. If that happens again I am out. With or without comments

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