The commenting system on Spokesman.com isn’t much different than when we launched this version of our website four years ago. We’ve added a few small features here and there, but The Spokesman-Review development team is small, and we have a lot of projects vying for our time. As long as comments kept working, our development priorities have been elsewhere. But toward the end of last year, we started considering how we might improve the commenting experience here. We want to raise the level of discussion, and the first way we’re going to approach that is by giving all our commenters a much more powerful tool. This afternoon we’ll be switching our comment threads over to a system called Disqus. It’s one of the best commenting systems on the web right now, in use at large sites like CNN and NPR. We like it because it gives people far more control over the way they engage in discussions, and it provides some awesome features that we’d never have time to develop on our own/Ryan Pitts, SR. An overview of the change here.

Question: Are you ready for this comments change?