I run this blog on Textpattern, a nice clean Content Management System. I like the way they do things, their aesthetic gives me joy, and I grok their programming model.

However, their commenting system is sorely lacking. I have experienced constant pain with dealing with comments of Textpattern. I imagine this is because Textpattern is a small operation (at least compared to Wordpress or Movable Type) and they don’t devote a lot of resources to comments. For a while, I was just sucking up and taking the punches from the hordes of comment spam.

Then my comp-sci life-line Mark Reid told me about Disqus, something that I had probably used but been oblivious to. After seeing it in glorious action, I’ve finally decided to switch the commenting on this blog to Disqus.