There are many many options out there, I've gotten dizzy tinkering with them all.
I'd like to have Drupal's own comments with the bonus of being able to post such comments only if you have a verified twitter/facebook/whatnot account. No anonymous comments. No gravatar type-your-email-get-a-picture comments.
The reason I want Drupals own comments is that I have a large community already. Their comments are in the comments, and any bonus comments should be posted in the same area as well. I can not open up for anonymous commentators as the spam-traffic is massive, so log-ins at other places seems best.
Lets have a look at what is out there shall we?
Disqus
http://drupal.org/project/disqus
Fantastic, we can get FB and Twitter and Yahoo and their uncle too - but the comments are inserted before the links in a node, and thus always above the websites logged in users comments making a random strangers comment visually more important than the original community. Plus you'll get two commenting boxes and a headache just looking at that. This is a great solution when you don't already have a community.
Gigya Socialize
http://drupal.org/project/gigya
"Authenticate users via Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and other OpenID " - right, so they get a user with their imported data? Somewhat but not quite - and if we're just looking for more comments, not more users, then this doesn't do what we want.
Facebook Connect
http://drupal.org/project/fbconnect
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Drupal for facebook
http://drupal.org/project/fb
Tried the connect one. beta and dev aren't ideal and I ran into trouble.
Which ones have I missed? I'd like to:
- allow for commenting only, via some other service (FB / twitter /whatnot) to avoid spam issues.
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- properly connect with the above mentioned social sites, where creating an account with this login, auto-fills the form and creates an account on the drupal site for the user without them having to bother too much. Bonus if it finds their buddies from other social networks, already on my site.
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Janrain Engage?
This might work: http://drupal.org/project/rpx
Allows login/registration from other sites and even maps the info to Drupal user profile.
Janrain charges - is it worth it?
I looked at the module and added it only to find that you have to pay to use it, their URL is used.....etc. Are all of the modules like this or just this one? With this module you are dinged HIGH amounts if you have very many users. I'll keep looking.
Haven't used it.
I can't say since I haven't used it, I just found it while researching a similar idea. It's cheaper than Gigya and seems to offer pretty good functionality. Why not try it out? It's free up to 2,500 users.
Otherwise there's the fbconnect module. Of if you're just looking for commenting you might check out Disqus.
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Has anyone had any success yet?
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subscribing but i would like to discuss
about disqus :) . . .
i had an issue with disqus and could not use the module from drupal.org but added the custom code
provided from their webpage . . .
So now by using their 'custom' code i can 'inject' their 'module' where i want ( by using custom drupal blocks * ) so no worries at all . . .
please check here for better understanding ;) . . . http://e-mag.career.teicrete.gr/content/88
i have disqus after the node-body and before the 'related' nodes block
i did not care for the extra blocks that the drupal-disqus-module provides ( most recent comments etc ) or the permissions or the custom content types since i can have the block 'shows up' where i want by using
block filters like content/* blog/* at the block configuration page
so it's ok for me
my issue with disqus is this . . .
sometimes it's a little bit slow :) but it's FREE ( cant have them all i quess )
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* i am using fusion by the way which is awesome !!!
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Disqus
I would think that this would work fine if you either finetune your node.tpl.php (for example instead of printing content, print the specific content and than disqus after that). More specifically, print the body, print the specific fields, print disqus... instead of just blanketly (not a word) printing all content. I would probably start by looking in that direction.
That, or, look at template preprocessing how the content is output in the first place and try to adjust the order there.
Those are the two approaches I would take (and have taken in other instances), when I was unhappy with the order of content being output.
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You can have discus output itself in a block rather than on every node already. Just poke in the settings. You can add a content region if you really wanted to add it someplace specific. For most cases I would think content bottom would work well.
Shocker Pricing
We had been building a Drupal LMS based platform with complete social media integration with Gigya. Gigya has a good platform to support commenting, authentication, recommend and gaming elements. Once you exceed the 1000 users/month level the cost of using Gigya starts at the $25,000/year and upwards. We have since shifted to Jan Rain http://drupal.org/project/rpx modules that support authentication, commenting and recommend without the gaming elements. The usage pricing for Jan Rain is posted online http://www.janrain.com/products/engage/pricing. FB and FBConnect are weak in that they don't support LinkedIN, G+ and other social networks. Disqus isn't in the same space at Jan Rain or Gigya.
module for displaying Facebook comments plugin
I am also looking for a module to display Facebook comments on a drupal site. I am currently using Drupal own comments module for commenting but I want to start using Facebook comments plugin instead.
Is there any module in drupal 6 that does this?
also, I have another issue. On each content page on my site, see example page - http://www.jampri.com/playlist/10602 , there are comments on each Playlist and then there are comments on each song inside each playlist. I.e: I have to show multiple facebook comment boxes on each specific url. How do I do this to make this work ?
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Facebook Comments
For Drupal 7 there is a new module called Facebook Comments that allows just this. It shouldn't be too hard to back-port to Drupal 6.
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Disqus vs Drupal comments vs Live Fyre vs ...
We're in the middle of this decision now, will post more as we learn more.
FB comments module
What I love about the FB comments module is that the comment defaults to posting a copy of the comment on the visitor's FB wall. They can toggle this off if they want but many people don't. I have added this to a baker's blog at http://ninjabaking.com. It's great for building more social media connections and some backlinks.
A list of some of the Drupal sites I have designed and/or developed can be viewed at motioncity.com
Looks like you switched to
Looks like you switched to disqus, any reasons behind it?
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Less spam, easy login
Disqus allows log in from Twitter, FB, G+, and even email accounts. Meanwhile I don't have to manage spam on the site. The downside is that you don't really "own" the comments. Still, a good trade off in that particular case.
A list of some of the Drupal sites I have designed and/or developed can be viewed at motioncity.com
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https://TajinderSinghNamdhari.com
This is an old thread but still a current issue for me.
Facebook does not help matters by changing things so often.
Has anyone looked at FB Social? https://drupal.org/project/fb_social
Things like the issues here, http://www.drupalforfacebook.org/, don't help.
disqus
I ended up "outsourcing" the whole commenting system to Disqus. Your Drupal system doesn't "own" the comments. But all the spam-prevention, social media sign-in, threading, etc. is handled by the service.
A list of some of the Drupal sites I have designed and/or developed can be viewed at motioncity.com
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I'm looking for a way to import existing facebook comments into my drupal install as drupal-native comments.
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