Need Site Testers: IntenseDebate.com

[jpmorgan13]

YE'ers,

We are fast approaching a launch of our blog comments system which acts as a replacement to your current blog comments and includes loads of features like threaded comments, voting up comments, a reputation for the commenter that follows them across all blogs with ID comments installed, and more.

Right now you can sign up for a profile on our site and play with our comment system which is now only on the IntenseDebate Blog here.

I want you to try to break it, offer critique, feature requests, and where we need work. Thanks in advance, Josh...

Also, PM me here and all YE blogs will be moved to the front of the list when we move to Alpha later this week. We will be gradually phasing in all blogs signed up.

[Aletheides]

Site design looks a little fumbled up over here on my end... Using Ie..

[jpmorgan13]

You must be using IE 6. Thx. ff 1 and 2 should be good as well as IE 7 and opera. IE 6 is a known issue and it requires workarounds which are currently being produced.

[akula]

josh, the product looks great

I think it's a very interesting solution

I'm actually a little surprised, I thought you may have been working on a new kind of forum software

I'm glad you're not, though

"Comments 2.0" is a better opportunity

[jpmorgan13]

Good to hear from you Dan. About 1.5 months ago we totally changed directions for distribution reasons. Our long term goal was eventually to change the way people comment on blogs to facilitate better conversations and "debate." After some discussions with mentors we found that the opportunity is now for such a product.

As it turns out, blog comments are basically the same today as they were several years ago and much in need of an iteration.

In the next few days we'll be adding more blog partners and the beauty of our product will soon be realized. I will bump this post then.

I would love to hear more of your feelings. I hope things are going well for you down under.