I'm with you on moderation and hope I never have to do that b/c it will ruin the conversation here.

Like I said, I've no problem with people chatting about stuff I say in other places, even if it's bad. I just want to know about it so I can chime in and ideally add to the discussion.

There's still a long way to go though.

I guess viral spreading is par for the course with this crowd, making it tougher to contain once the word got out about the feature. Once live, it will be a sweet feature, and I'm antsy to test it if you need testers.

Having been in software for many years, I feel your pain about new feature releases. I do appreciate the transparency and honesty under which you and your company operate.

Anyway, weak comment gladly retracted

Reactions was meant to be released in a staged manner. We flubbed and the settings were shown to everyone for a short period of time. In that mean, many people enabled the settings, and many people spread the word of its release.

We decided to write about it (only) on our blog just to intro what it's about. We mention right in the post that's it's being staged out. We wanted to prepare the Reactions for everyone before completely releasing it. Since people began enabling it already, we just made a disclaimer that it would take a couple days for reactions to populate.

Along the way there were issues, as with anything new or novel that is released. Today things are much faster and things are going along at a fast pace. It's not instantaneous yet but we're working toward that level.

I'm not sure what else there is to acknowledge, as all of this has been officially stated before. We've been busy trying to improve this for you (and everyone).

Blogging and the associated technologies are a type of infrastucture, and yet are evolving. This makes it all much less useful in my opinion, though there is no good answer to that. Infrastructure must be available, predictable and long lasting.

Perhaps the fragmentation is an evolutionary pressure to move away from hierarchy (I speak, many listen, most comments boring and predictable) and towards a network structure (we all communicate en mass… like usenet and early BBS's figured out years ago).

Even Eric Schmidt things the web is unpleasant: http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/08/news/newspaper_...

Actually, I embrace fragmentation, but I also crave aggregation. You guys and Disqus (when their feature gets released) have it right. Allow the blogger to aggregate commentary that happens other places.

Generally, I don't think you, as a publisher, can stop comments from fragmenting to other services. At BackType, we're hoping to give both bloggers and comment authors the tools to find, follow and share conversations irrespective of where they take place.

This is why I *really* want Disqus to release that feature. I'm a bit confused about a) why it happened and b) why a pretty transparent company like Disqus hasn't been more vocal about the fact that it's not ready.

I'd accept an “our bad it's not ready yet” post. But the only semi-official acknowledgment is the comment by Daniel I listed.

Weak.

(1) I don't care if my content gets discussed in other places, but I'm sure that someone who is dependent upon the monetization of his/her content may feel differently. Or maybe he/she wouldn't, since comments in other places (often) serve to evangelize the source of the content to others who may not have heard about it. I think that actually happened in one instance (I forget whether The Apps Lab, or another blog, was the repository of the original content.)

(2) I use Google Reader to conduct ego searches, but I don't really have a formal way to explicitly track mentions of the content itself on other services. This is partially because of my blogging platform of choice (Blogger – I'm inertial), but I could be more aggressive in this area.

(3) I admit that I often don't think of the best conversation location for the content provider, but often think of the best conversation location for myself. As a fellow Disqus user, I'm positively inclined toward commenting in Disqus, which not only shows up in (and links to) the original content source, but also appears in my FriendFeed stream. I'd almost say that it was a win-win, except for the fact that it does allow comments to break out in other places, which may be good or bad depending upon your point of view.

So now I'll post this. And because of the length of the comment, people will HAVE to come here to see the whole thing.