Matt Mullenweg announced today that Intense Debate is now an Automattic joint.
Intense Debate is a richly interactive comment system that includes cool features like threading, reply by email, voting, reputation, and global profiles.
We know that WordPress’s commenting features were lacking and we were hoping some improvements were forthcoming.
Interestingly, we met with the IntenseDebate team at BlogWorld Expo this past weekend and we were impressed with their offerings.
It will be interesting to see where this goes – we’ll be watching!