Hello, friends.
In an effort to continue offering the very best place for PlayStation fans to interact, learn about their favorite platform, and talk about the games and industry we love, PSU is making some changes.
Last week, we announced our official Twitch TV channel, began streaming PS4 games right on the homepage, and called on our amazing forum community to create a network of PSU community streamers.
Today, we say goodbye to our built-in comments system, and say ‘Hello!’ to Disqus.
You’ll notice the change immediately, in all your favorite articles. You can sort comments by date and popularity. You can share particularly insightful comments, and respond directly to other readers in threads. You can see top discussions on PlayStation Universe–the stories and reviews generating the most buzz–and jump directly to those conversations.
Perhaps best of all, you can use Facebook, Twitter, Google+, or a persistent Disqus account–the same account you probably use on dozens of other websites–to easily sign-in and share your thoughts.
Now that the old comments are gone, we can be blunt: they were pretty terrible. Messages got randomly cut. Spam was at an unfortunate high. You couldn’t respond to a particular comment; @ symbols were used instead. The old system was stifling conversation, and in a new generation of PlayStation, one that will connect members of the PlayStation Universe more than ever before, that just wasn’t acceptable.
There are a few downsides: The old comments and conversations won’t transfer over, so every breaking news, review, and exclusive interview on PSU.com is starting from a blank slate. In addition, you can no longer sign-in to comments using your PSU forum credentials. We’re working with Disqus to see if this is a possibility for the future, as I know many of you enjoyed the ease with which one login handled both, and we’ll share news on that front as it comes.
But for now, enjoy the new comments. Before I started writing for PSU as a lowly staff writer in the summer of 2012, the community, energy, and incredible enthusiasm for the world of PlayStation sold me on the new experience, but the site had its technical problems. Today, between Disqus comments, PS4 livestreams, and the editorial dream team we’ve built in the last several months, I couldn’t be happier with where we stand and where we’re going.
Join the PlayStation conversation here at PSU. Give us your feedback, opinions, and voice in the comments of every article you read, and join our official forums for good times with our massive PlayStation community. And tell us how you think we can serve you better. PSU is by gamers, for gamers, so nothing is more important.
Cheers,
Kyle Prahl
Editor-in-chief, PSU