Ready for your first look at the next version of the official Disqus app on Windows Phone? Of course you are, which is what we're going to show you now. Disqus is probably one of the largest blog comment systems on the web. One that you'll find on a good majority of websites. The Disqus Windows Phone app was their first for mobile, so we're excited to see what's in store for the new Disqus 2.0 beta.

First things first, the next version Disqus was written in new and shiny Windows 8.1 code. That's right; it was completely rewritten as a Windows 8.1 Universal app. Here are the new features over the previous version of Disqus on Windows Phone: You can now log in/register with Facebook, Twitter and Google accounts

Follow communities in addition to users, which gets published in a brand new feed

Notifications now include upvotes, new followers in addition to replies

Notifications published to action center

New trending feeds for topics (e.g. Tech, Business, News)

User activity feeds now include favorites (stars)

You may now update your profile and upload an avatar right from the app