As you may have read about late last month, Automattic, the company behind WordPress, recently announced their acquisition of Intense Debate, a service for blogs that gives added funtionality like threading, reply by email and more.

I had a chance to try out the next revision early and I have to say, I am very impressed so far. The installation was super easy and my existing WordPress comments were easily ported over into super-charged Intense Debate comments (with kung fu grip!).

Ever-important to me is the design of any blog and I am super pleased as to the consistency that Intense Debate has kept with the styling I had before (it’s actually made it better with the addition of things like avatars and included RSS feeds for comments). I’m sworn to secrecy on the full details of the new release, but I can tell you, it’s pretty awesome and I’m excited for it to go public.

No good beta test is complete without some usage, so leave a comment and let me know what you think about this new way of managing comments.