@Ymarsakar: I agree - one shouldn’t have to spend time to learn a new comment system. Ours integrates directly with the blog so the experience is seamless. I’ve had some experience with Haloscan and I can assure you Disqus does not follow the same philosophies. Just scroll down and all will be well.
@Synova: I’d love to hear your thoughts after checking us out. I think you’ll find it quite intuitive.

And of course, @Bookwork:
I’d love to answer any questions or personally help you get started. We’re a young service but we’ve dedicated much of ourselves to making Disqus the best way to have discussions on blogs.

Cheers,
Daniel
daniel@disqus.com

I don’t want to spend the time learning Disqus, given the fact that my mozilla browser is horrible with Haloscan. I don’t want to have to click, click, and click again to read. I just want to scroll down. That’s all I need. My brain separates out the different elements on its own.

I think that following even multiple comment threads and branches that are displayed linearly is a skill that isn’t that hard to develop. If a response is likely to suffer when not attached to the comment that is being replied to people tend to include a quote or the comment number or time-stamp. It does work. (Unless intervening comments are deleted and all comments renumbered… which is *bad*.)

Personally I dislike most comment systems that separate replies and split them. Some are relatively functional but many are not.

Partly they suffer from people saying the same sorts of things on separate branches when they’d be better off keeping the conversation all together. If two commentors go off track in a similar direction I will then have to follow two separate comment branches as people reply to those two people.

Or maybe I shouldn’t assume that Disqus sorts comments into a tree and actually go look at it.