Switching commenting system to Livefyre

11 Sep, 2012

As you might have already noticed, i switched my commenting system to livefyre.com. If I got it right it’s relatively new but it seems to better for my needs than well established Disqus commenting system. Disqus gained popularity in last two or three years and I tried Disqus some time ago too but didn’t like its Wordpress Plugin. Especially i haven’t liked the poor java Script implementation. Comment section could not be crawled by google (maybe it’s got better now). Livefyre promise to be SEO friendlier out of the box. Indeed Livefyre WP-Plugin renders all the comments to html, and I saw them by switching all the java-scripts off!.

Livefyre Features

Features of Livefyre:

SocialSync - comment sync with twitter and FB
Social Sign In
Friend Tagging - you can tag FB or twitter friends.
Comment Sharing
Comment Liking
Rich Text Editor
LinkBack - Possible to live back link on every comment you do, wherever you do it.
Live Listeners
Comment Notifiers
Media Embedding
Comment Editing
User Profiles

UPDATE 12.09.12 Dhara the community manager from Livefyre has pointed me to “Livefyre WP Plugin v3 (beta)” which should provide all that feature for WordePress, because now released version is still not good in “Rich Text editor” and “Media Embedding”. I will try this beta soon.

UPDATE 15.09.12 I have installed latest betta v3.52 to this, but nothing has changed to the frontend. See comments. So please feel free to comment any crap to this post, because i’m still testing livefyre.

Archived comments (16)

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AlexH12 Sept 2012
I'll start by typing some abracadabry here.
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AlexH12 Sept 2012
Hey zambrovski , did that reached you?
Matt12 Sept 2012
Livefyre is my favorite comment system :D
AlexH12 Sept 2012
do you use it on your Blog?
Dhara Mistry14 Sept 2012
Looking awesome on your site, Shuron :) Thanks for testing out Livefyre and holler at us if you need anything!

Happy Friday and have a great weekend :)
AlexH15 Sept 2012
@Dhara Mistry Thank you. Now i installed Livefyry 3.52 and see
"Livefyre Site ID" and "Livefyre Site Key" but it seemes that nothing has changed in the foreground. :(
Dhara Mistry15 Sept 2012
@shuron Comments 3 work only from the next post published. Write a new post and you should be all set.
AlexH15 Sept 2012
Yes indeed! Thank you.
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AlexH15 Sept 2012
@Dhara Mistry it seemes still to have a lot of problems. So i had even troubles to mention you there. It works only here.
Tester18 Sept 2012
I'm looking forward to trying Livefyre out on my own Wordpress blog. It's been a minefield trying to choose the best solution between it, intensedebate and Disqus..
Disqus was definitely in the running - until I tried to import my existing comments to it. 10 days later and i'm still waiting for a meaningful error message to explain why it didn't make it (and their tech support hasn't responded)
so fingers crossed for livefyre... :)
AlexH18 Sept 2012
As you can see, the Support of Livefyre is actually in the comments ;)
AlexH18 Sept 2012
As you can see, the Support of Livefyre is actually in the comments ;)
Toranto21 Sept 2012
Thank you livefyre promise to be SEO friendlier out of the box. Indeed Livefyre WP-Plugin renders all the comments to html, and I saw them by switching
AlexH21 Sept 2012
@Toranto Yes it's fair approach to do so. Cemments should stay on site ;)
Jomaz1 Oct 2012
I always love to post comments via livefyre, because will not cause any spamming things. Only true comments will get published.
AlexH1 Oct 2012
@Jomaz Unfortunatelly that is not allways true.. Look two listenrs abowe "bestwebsite builder software" and "India Tenders". I left the comment of India Tenders below. Because Here everyone alowed to "spam" - it's test playground ;) But i would not like to have such comment's in other posts.