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    MediaStorm replied on October 30, 2009 15:16 to the question "Importing comments from proprietary system?" in IntenseDebate:

    MediaStorm
    Well, I was hoping to refrain from posting it here because it seems a bit wrong being that this is IntenseDebate's forum....but we've decided to go with one of their competitors of sorts: Disqus.

    We like what we saw with ID, but Disqus seems to be the only one out there that can do what we need: import XML-formatted comments (in WordPress's comment XML format) into their system. We'd still have to do it all by hand, but (if I understand it correctly -- we haven't dug *too* deep into it just yet) at least it's an open format that we can take with use if we decide to leave, both importing and exporting.

    I know this doesn't really help you if you guys already decided on IntenseDebate, but we seem to have exhausted our options there so needed to move on.

    Good luck.
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    MediaStorm replied on October 28, 2009 17:43 to the question "Importing comments from proprietary system?" in IntenseDebate:

    MediaStorm
    Hi Ruben,
    I don't believe I ever did get a response back when I emailed their support, so as far as I know the issue still remains. We've since decided to pursue a different commenting system (which has just moved to a Wordpress XML format for their own comments, so they should work great moving to and from WordPress), so I never followed-up or heard anything more.

    Good luck.
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    MediaStorm replied on February 04, 2009 20:08 to the question "Importing comments from proprietary system?" in IntenseDebate:

    MediaStorm
    Hi Jon,
    Well, there are currently 24 separate story pages, any my understanding is that we'd need to set up a separate blog for each of the stories, since the comments are supposed to pertain to each individual story. On the low end, some have less than a dozen (maybe a handful), but on the high end there's quite a few dozen. Maybe ~500 in total?

    Please let me know if there's anything we can do. I will get in touch with support as well, and reference this posting.

    Thanks so much!
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    MediaStorm asked a question in IntenseDebate on January 21, 2009 23:24:

    MediaStorm
    Importing comments from proprietary system?
    We're trying to move to ID from a proprietary commenting system (very rudimentary, form-mail that is then added to the page by hand), and have all the data we need (name, time posted, message, etc). I was hoping we could get these old comments into the ID system WITH the proper timestamp posted, but it's not working as planned. Here's how I hoped to get it done:

    1) Set up dummy comments in new dummy ID blog.
    2) Export XML, which contains these new dummy comments.
    3) Use the exported XML as a guide to edit & populate with old comments from our proprietary system, maintaining the existing structure of the XML (just filling in the data).
    4) Import edited XML back into ID, which effectively brings the old comments into our new ID system.

    Two things:
    1) Is this even theoretically possible, assuming we keep the strict structure of the XML doc?

    2) Is importing XML disabled? All of the docs and promotional material I'm seeing for ID claims you can import without a problem, but I'm not seeing that option at all in the Blog Tools section (just Export, Reinstall, and Uninstall).

    Any other ways we could go about doing this? I see that the timestamp for each comment isn't publicly surfaced, so we could, theoretically, enter all of the existing comments manually....which would work in a way because they would still sort correctly by date so long as we enter them in the right order....but I'd like to avoid that and pre-date them all if possible.

    Thanks!