The comment system has been re-activated for Nextbigfuture. The minimal commenting is active.
Let me know if there are any issues.
Apologies for the inconvenience of comment system software issue of the last 18 hours.
Brian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including Space, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Medicine, Anti-aging Biotechnology, and Nanotechnology.
Known for identifying cutting edge technologies, he is currently a Co-Founder of a startup and fundraiser for high potential early-stage companies. He is the Head of Research for Allocations for deep technology investments and an Angel Investor at Space Angels.
A frequent speaker at corporations, he has been a TEDx speaker, a Singularity University speaker and guest at numerous interviews for radio and podcasts. He is open to public speaking and advising engagements.
This site actually did use Discus in the past.
But Discus has some performance demerits, which Brian and/or his web developer felt were insurmountable, and were persuaded to migrate over to Spot.IM instead. I think this is currently the third or fourth comment system iteration?
Thanks. I can read website on tablet and iPhone again…
Anything built on PHP is of the devil. When things go wrong, they go WAY wrong. Exempli Gratia, WordPress.
Just kidding, developers, don’t flame me! Actually, the ad issue recently wasn’t a huge problem for me. I suppose it’s because while working for the intenet, I’ve seen far worse. ^_^
Hmmm…. oddly, I can’t reply… Well that reply worked… But I was just kidding with you.
What can I say? I won it in a raffle. It’s not like I’d ever buy one.
I think I found your problem… iPad.
Still having “mobile” viewing problems, very slow, cannot close ads, constant reloading of page being viewed.
who hosts/runs your website,
Brian
Agree
Well, not always; I often have trouble logging in to Disqus on my IPad. But it IS a widely enough used commenting system to have had most of the bugs worked out.
Glad to see this temporary shut off didn’t deep six the existing comments.
No kidding!
You should use Disqus comments… That system always works on mobile.
I wuz jagging!
Testing 1…2…1…2…
yeah, i was getting annoyed viewing Nextbigfuture on mobile for awhile. thought my adblock was at fault. glad its fixed.
*poke*
It is nice to be able to read the front page articles again 🙂