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Disqus releases first iPhone app w/ support for tracking comments & discussions, more

Popular commenting service Disqus today has announced its first ever iOS app. The app is available now in the App Store for free and allows users to track notifications relating to their comments as well as discussions from channels and websites they follow. The app’s interface is pretty standard, with home, channel, notification, and profile tabs along the bottom.

When you first launch the app, you are presented with a stream of trending discussions across websites and channels you follow. You’ll also see content that other people you follow have liked or recommended. Choosing one of the trending or recommended discussions will bring up the original article, as well as all of the comments and the ability for you to join the discussion.

In the Channels tab of the app, you’ll find discussions from channels and websites you follow, as well as additional channels that are recommended by Disqus for you.

In the Notifications tab of the app, you’ll see two streams of content: one for comments and another for general activity. The main comments stream of the notifications tab shows replies to the comments you have made on websites and discussions that use the Disqus platform. The Activity stream shows newly started discussions, discussions to which you’ve been invited, and when a comment you’ve made is upvoted or downvoted.

The Profile tab of the app shows all of the comments you’ve made, as well as discussions you’ve started and content that is recommended for you. The Profile tab also houses the ability to keep track of upvotes, followers, and people you have blocked.

As you would expect, the Disqus app on iOS supports push notifications, which means you’ll immediately know when someone replies to one of your comments or a new discussion is started. Furthermore, you can upvote and reply to comments directly from Notification Center.

There are a handful of other features in Disqus for iOS as well:

Along with many of the features you’re familiar with, we’re introducing a few new ones that are unique to the iOS app.

First is the ability to block others so that posts, and notifications from them will no longer be visible.

Blocking actions taken on the app aren’t currently reflected on the web version, though it’s something we’re committed to adding in the future.

Second, downvotes now reduce the comment’s total number of votes, with zero being the lowest a count can go.

Disqus for iPhone is available now for free on the App Store.

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Comments

  1. crichton007 - 8 years ago

    Ugh, I can’t think of many things I’m less interested in having with me all the time than the crappy replies I get from sites that use Disqus.

    • el3v3nty - 8 years ago

      If you visit / comment / fight on bgr.com or equivalent sites, than yes, you shouldn’t be interested.

  2. el3v3nty - 8 years ago

    Now, just waiting for 9to5mac to switch to disqus like 9to5google!

    • Talton - 8 years ago

      I’d love to see this happen as well. The barrier to creating a WP account can be daunting since it requires you to create a blog and select their Free plan in the process.

  3. codemonkey85 - 8 years ago

    Bah, iPhone only? In 2016? Really?

    • el3v3nty - 8 years ago

      if you get iPhone ap right, odds are… you can get android app right (since you can port iOS UI to android, not the other way around).

      Moreover, i believe there’s an open-beta for disqus app on android.

  4. applegetridofsimandjack - 8 years ago

    Why WordPress is average:

    Posting a comment requires a page refresh after the post is sent. (Consumes lots of data because every page reload can mean 10mb data lost just for a comment).

    Viewing new posts also requires a page refresh.

    After 3 consecutive replies, the ‘reply’ button vanished, you are required to visit the wordpress page to reply to the reply.

  5. flaviosuave - 8 years ago

    Wonderful! Now I can easily track comments and replies on this very sit…oh, wait.

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  7. Ryan - 8 years ago

    Great news…
    Now if only this site used it. (why doesn’t it?)

  8. rahhbriley - 8 years ago

    As a note, I witnessed many quality, regularly commenting contributors stop participating after you changed to WP comments. You had rankings and achievements, etc. that we were incentiveized to earn, and it was wiped clean. Nature of the beast, I get it…but out “hard work” went down the drain. WP comment SUCK! We can’t even edit them…

  9. cydianerd - 8 years ago

    WordPress comments are good but not as Disqus / Livefyre has offered to users. I am going to download this app, so I can track of all the discussions I make around different websites.

  10. Stuart Wilson - 8 years ago

    Review of the day!
    The Sony 13MP camera on T1 Plus is excellent enough to compete with iPhone 6s. Sometime T1 Plus can produce brighter and sharper images and videos.
    For more information you can visit the official youtube channel of Vkworld’s to find out the video review!

  11. Srii - 7 years ago

    Wow! great, but when will the Android version launch?

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