If you have a Disqus account, you might want to change your password. The online commenting platform (which powered this site’s comments up until this earlier year), announced that it suffered a security breach in 2012 and that data for about 17.5 million users was compromised. While the breach happened 5 years ago, Disqus just […]
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Say hello to Liliputing’s new commenting system
For the past 9 years, Liliputing’s comment system has been powered by Disqus. Today I’m trying something different. As I mentioned in January, Disqus recently announced that websites using the company’s commenting tools had a choice: display advertising in the comment section or pay for a subscription. The subscription fee is reasonably low and I […]
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Technical difficulties
You may have noticed that Liliputing was down for a few hours this morning. After pulling my hair out trying to get to the bottom of things, it turns out that the Disqus comment plugin was causing some problems, so I’ve temporarily disabled it. That means the comment form won’t be as pretty as usual […]
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How I moved Liliputing from Blogger to WordPress
If anyone’s curious about the process of moving from Blogger to WordPress, that’s exactly what I did last weekend. I wrote up a brief article explaining the steps over at my personal blog. Basically, I made the switch after deciding to launch the Liliputing Forums. Up until recently, this site had been hosted by Google’s […]