[fredwilson]

yeah, we've talked a lot about having two identity systems on usv.com. it is not ideal. but twitter doesn't have comments and disqus doesn't have the user base that twitter has, yet.

we are thinking about ways we can connect the two together in a tighter way to reduce some of this

as you point out, twitter and disqus are USV portfolio companies and we love using and supporting the products our portfolio companies make

[buro9]

Well, I think you are onto something in terms of making the Tweets and things you're interested in as an individual and as a team more visible.

On that... nail on the head.

It would be good if you could add a subtle addition of highlighting the things on the board in that a USV team member has contributed.

I think of VC firms as akin to a curator of interesting companies and opportunities, and that the sum of the portfolio reflects strongly the personal curation of the VCs. It'd be ace to see that shine through this new board.

The only conflict in that is whether you see this board as becoming more than USV, or giving an insight into USV. If the former than you'd be right to hesitate about highlighting the team's contributions, if the latter then do it already.

[stevenleeg]

I really like where you're going with this, and I honestly don't mind the use of twitter for authentication. You've already addressed the double sign-in thing, but I think my biggest issue has come from Disqus loading time.

At least 25% of the time that I've clicked on a comments link, I've had to sit around (after the page has loaded!) waiting for Disqus to load the comments (what I actually came to see). Sometimes they don't even load at all and I have to refresh the page. I completely understand that you guys love supporting your portfolio companies, but it seems like this type of site isn't quite as well suited for Disqus.

Just my two cents. I'm excited to see how you guys improve on this, and other than these issues I think you've done a great job so far.

[kmfrk]

You could invest in buro9's http://microco.sm and just use it for both those things instead. Problem solved. :)

[fredwilson]

checking it out now

[wslh]

Do you expect difference in the topics shared on USV to the ones on HN/reddit/etc?

I think you could benefit more from automatically analyzing links from many sources than to implement a sharing service yourself.

[fredwilson]

yes we do think it will be different

but only time will tell if we are right about that