Hours From Now
Hollywood Elsewhere will become a WordPress site sometime after midnight. Preparing for this has distracted my energies to some extent over the last few days, and especially yesterday as I felt I needed a little tutoring. WordPress is obviously not that big a deal, but I frankly prefer posting with HTML code rather than the purely visual option. (For now anyway.) I’m told that readers won’t have to re-register for the newly installed Disqus commenting software. I know that one way or another I’ll retain the power to delete certain comments and/or ban commenters outright. HE wouldn’t be HE without that.
Looking forward to Disqus. I’m an avid daily reader of HE, but I mostly lurk. Once Disqus is up and running I’ll likely be commenting quite a bit more. Good luck with WordPress and keep up the good work.
Good to hear about not having to re-register. Will the comments become flash-based with Disqus like Vulture’s site?
JOSH SLEEPS: I’ve heard others say the same. What’s the attraction with Disqus? What was stopping people from using Moveable Type?
By the way: Will Disqus allow This?
If not, it could cramp the muthafuckin’ HE house style.
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sorry to hear about the instillation of disqus…way too many privacy issues for my taste…
@scooterzz – what privacy issues?
I have an anonymous Disqus account, so I’m not sure privacy is an issue. I think *maybe* Disqus can be set up to require a Facebook login, but I don’t see Jeff doing it that way.
Oh no, we can still be banned by the fey 80 year old movie reviewer. The fear, man. The fear.
“we can still be banned by the fey 80 year old movie reviewer…”
Wait, Rex Reed is in charge now?
“I know that one way or another I’ll retain the power to delete certain comments and/or ban commenters outright. HE wouldn’t be HE without that.”
When it comes to what “makes” HE, I would have gone for “insightful criticism of upcoming films,” or “in-depth interviews from varied filmmakers,” or even “witty observations on modern life”… not “power to delete comments and ban users.” But hey, it’s your site…
Why is it that everybody Jeff banned is still here? I’m hoping these Kim Jong Un like pronouncements are as feeble as the North Korean dude’s and we will maintain peace on the peninsula.
Can one of you dudes take a sec to talk about the privacy issues scooterz brought up? C’mon, snark-free and straight-up info.
Alobar: as far as I’m aware he’s just talking about how your Disqus account is transferable from site to site. So your HE username could be the same as your Ain’t it Cool News one. Unless you’re embarrassed about people seeing your posts from other sites its not a big deal
“So your HE username could be the same as your Ain’t it Cool News one. Unless you’re embarrassed about people seeing your posts from other sites its not a big deal.”
If you’re posting on AICN, then yes — you should be embarrassed.
Thanks, @Eloi – that’s what I figured. No biggie – benefits outweigh the cost, and what not to be sure and all that…
Yeah, that would be the extreme example.
I find it hard to believe we won’t have to re-register given that its a totally different bit of software. But I also don’t understand why some people get so upset at having to register when it takes a couple of minutes tops.
Please allow Yahoo login with Disqus. Other sites seem to have forgot about it, except for AV Club.
Gonna miss the classic style of the comments though.
what has always concerned me about disqus is its use of bugs that track members activities even while logged off…. i’ve also been told that disqus is pretty indiscriminate in its distribution of analytic data… not to mention that the whole process is a pain in the ass…