You may have noticed that comments have returned to Sexy Widget after a few weeks' disappearance. This has been the result of on ongoing struggle for me to get Disqus to work with Typepad.
When I originally installed Disqus on this blog, I couldn't get it to work. I provided my credentials to Disqus founder Jason Yan who was nice enough to try and help me out, and he couldn't get it to work. We opened up a ticket with Typepad who changed some mysterious setting that allowed Disqus comments to show up.
When they changed this setting, pagination disappeared. Try as I might, I couldn't get pagination to reappear. I opened up a trouble ticket with Typepad, and they flipped back the setting that turned off Disqus and turned on pagination.
Apparently it's not possible to have both pagination and Disqus.
When forced to choose between the two, I chose Disqus.
However, in returning to the setting that allowed me to use Disqus, the TypePad customer service rep wrote this:
Thanks for the note. We've switched your account back to
our Static platform temporarily. Please keep in mind that
soon all our subscribers will be migrated to the new
Dynamic platform and there will not be an option to convert
back.
Does this mean that Disqus will not be able to exist on TypePad blogs when they make this switch? I've heard rumors that TypePad is planning their own new and improved commenting system which would hint that perhaps they may be trying to block Disqus.
Any company trying to build a service off of blogging platforms should probably take note - just because social networks decided to go (relatively) open, doesn't mean that blogging platforms can't decide to close up.
