I think I'm going to try out Blogger's built-in comments to see how well they work. Although Hossein Sharifi over at YACCS has done a good job with his commenting system, some of the lag times and bugs are getting annoying enough for me to look at this option. Using Blogger's comments may have its own pitfalls, though. First of all, I'll be depending on their server to host the comments, so that will probably cause some down time. More importantly, though, there's no way to import all of the old comments people have submitted, which just sucks. I'm not sure how long it will take to properly code all of the changes, but I'll post an update once it's up and running so that you can let me know how it's working.

Update: OK, I think I have the code right. Old comments are not visible anymore now that I removed that code, and I still need to fine-tune how things look. Another annoying thing is that although comment links are under all of the posts on my front page, they are only enabled from this post on. I guess this will be less of a problem as time goes on, but it still makes me wonder whether this is worth it. Entering comments is a little different, as you are directed to the "item page" which shows the original post, any existing comments, and a link to enter your own comment. I'm not sure whether I like that or not yet. What do you think?

Update II: Well, that didn't last long. After some input on the new commenting system, I had to agree that there were too many things I didn't like about Blogger's commenting system for me to stay with it. It's a shame, because I liked not having to deal with pop-up windows, but you had to jump through too many hoops to leave a comment, and it was not an intuitive process. I get few enough comments that it would be stupid for me to make it harder for people to leave them... ;-)