I got a few emails from folks wondering “where have all the old comments gone?”

If you look at my old entries, all the comments are gone. This is because I changed my commenting system: I’ve recently started using Disqus to manage my comments, because the old Movable Type comments were too susceptible to comment spam — and, worse, my hosting service Pair.com had the unfortunate habit of shutting down my comments if the script (mt-comments.cgi) got pounded by a comment spambot.

At the moment, Disqus doesn’t have a tool for importing all the thousands of old comments I have in my Movable Type comment database. But Disqus has promised to create such a tool soon, and when they do, I’ll slurp all the old comments into Disqus so they reappear.