New, improved comments system coming soon (hopefully...)

Following Wednesday's temporary loss of comments, some of our readers may already know we're going to trial the Disqus commenting system on our site. While the original plan was to introduce this on the new site we're working on, we've decided to give it a go here.

What's going to happen?

I'll be switching Disqus on at some point over the weekend, when activity on our site is usually lower. If all goes to plan all existing comments will sync with Disqus and the only difference you'll see will be that blog comments look a bit different. If I have any problems, comments may be unavailable for a time.

Why is this happening?

The advantages of introducing Disqus to our current site are:

1) We can all get used to the new commenting system before switching to the new site, giving us one less thing to think about when we do make the switch.

2) Importing comments to the new site has been one of our biggest headaches. We're hoping that using Disqus will remove this problem (more on this another time).

Assuming the switch is a success I'll put up another post explaining what the benefits of Disqus are. I'll also try to keep everyone updated on my progress using Twitter.