This blog may switch back to Disqus soon

Here's why. ^_^

Also to note, I switched the Acrylic Style Blog back to Disqus (mainly due to ease of use).

I like JS-Kit and all, it's certainly full of great features, but sometimes that isn't a good thing and it feels like a lot of clutter for such a simple feature (plus Disqus' recent updates have been tempting).

EDIT: They just added Blogger comment syncing (almost instantly, lol).

Echo

Ok, so when I had first switched comments to JS-Kit, I felt the interface was ugly and that I couldn't wait for Disqus to add Blogger syncing and Friend Connect support to bring it back to this blog.

Now I find it bearable and I like the fact that the JS-Kit team was ahead of me and added the ability to change the theme of the comment box with CSS, plus over time they started to add features that other services don't have like Google Friend Connect support and so on, so I stuck with them.

Now my reason for sticking to JS-Kit is even larger as they've displayed a large upgrade to their existing commenting system called Echo.

Now I don't mean to advertise for them but Echo is this great expansion to commenting that in real-time draws comments from sites all over the web about your post to your blog, allowing you to increase engagement ten fold via sites like FriendFeed, Twitter, Facebook, even Delicious.

I think just for posting a blog post about Echo I've also posted on their example pages comment box.

All in all to end this post quick so that I don't go off on a rant, I plan to increase engagement on this blog through FriendFeed, I was originally going to code this crafty comment box that'd take comments from FriendFeed and Google Friend Connect but instead I'll just go with JS-Kits Echo.

EDIT: We just got the ECHO comment box on our site, still don't have the cool social gestures feature yet though (I plan to pay for it in the future).

JS-Kit Comments

Ok, so I betrayed Disqus, and to mention first I actually liked Disqus.

So my reason... JS-Kit integrates with Blogger better. Comments with JS-Kit become comments in Bloggers built in commenting system which is a plus for me.

So if/when I remove JS-Kit from this blog. All of the comments stay.

Plus JS-Kit also has Facebook Connect support just like Disqus and it uses my own API key, meaning that I keep the same number of Facebook users, no changes.

Plus JS-Kit is easier for me to customize (and I'm a big fan of that).

And last, I'm confident that Bloggers existing commenting system and comment API will be updated in the future to better compete with these products and to push Blogger into being more of a social network (and I think it has something to do with Friend Connect) so I'd rather add something that won't cripple this site once that happens.