Tuesday, January 17, 2017

DISQUS, Powerful Publisher Tools, All for Free

Likely there's little or no disagreement the weakest aspect of Google's Blogger is the pitiful way it handles comments and a recent mistake I made gives all the more reason to find something better.

You have probably seen DISQUS in use around the Web and you can use whatever you like to validate yourself since Twitter, Facebook, etc can be used with equal facility so there's no exposure to passwords, identities, etc.  (DISQUS:  Powerful publisher tools, all for free)

Before toying with the software, I'll study further since it doesn't specifically mention Blogger support although it says it supports everything.  The latter aspect of that is the part I need to verify and this might come to the colossal drag of setting up another blog and then using it for testing.


Whoa, whoa, whoa ... the Epiphany comes.  There's the Searching for Ithakanov which Silas Scarborovnik (or somebody) made and that could serve.  I must take a look to see if anyone actually reads it first but that may be too responsible, particularly when the Great God Mescalito says, "Fuck it, man.  Just do it."

Ed:  I thought you had no ganja??

I don't but the Great God Mescalito is still here; he's just not giving up any reefer at the moment.


This is not to try to identify anyone but it's kind of silly when every comment comes from Anonymous.  It wouldn't matter to me if instead it showed up as ILikeSnowBunnies or some kind of Twitter ID as it's less bland than all those Anonymous entries.

The part I don't know is what it will do if you don't have Twitter, Facebook, or some such.  Possibly it becomes more of a hassle rather than less so some testing is needed beyond discovering simply whether it bollixes Blogger just by installing it.


Lotho had just written a comment and I borked it even before I got a chance to read much of it so I'm highly fumed with myself because I was interested to see what he said.  Therefore, some research is warranted to discover if it's possible to prevent mistakes like that in future.


Speaking of Lotho, we had a bet as to whether I would call the bank and there's a partial win.  You can probably infer the result from the following Tweet.

Bank of America has an automated phone system which is absolutely impossible.  Why?  Because BoA hates us and doesn't give a fuck.

Yep, that should say it all.  I never got near a live a human and they will charge me even more if I go into a branch and, as to why that should be, see above.  This was not a flash-in-the-plan flameout in giving it a quick try and immediately giving up as I went around and around with that damn thing as it made one mistake after the other in interpreting the voice.  It's idiotic.

Update:  scratch the above about BoA.  Details to follow.

3 comments:

Cadillac Man said...

Have you tried reaching them through their online customer service? This usually works better than the phone. Also, if you have an online banking account with them you can do it that way. An additional tip is don't call at peak hours and forget the voice prompts, use the keypad. If this fails you can file a complaint online wth the Better Business Bureau, the Consumer Protection Bureau, and the Attorney General of Texas. This can all be done online and there should be no cost, just a little time. It is a hassle but you'll feel so good when you get back the $110 that the bank just stole from you!

Unknown said...

Done deal, bro! It's a win now and I was deliberately looking for a human since you know those damn computers. The voice recognition part was horrendous, tho.

You said xyzzy. Is that correct?

No

OK, let's start over.

That happened many times (larfs).

Unknown said...

The follow-up reveals the win and it's good to recover the jingle but it's kind of a bigger buzz that I did it when people didn't think I would. I didn't think I would (larfs).