title: Disqus not displaying comment count
body: <p>SUMMARY:
  I am setting up disqus to display a comment count on a page within our MVC .net site. I have 'fixed' this feature before on a Tumblr page, so I thought I had the needed skills to do this fairly easily on this site but am failing. I have also reviewed all of Ryan's (<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/1370956/ryan-v">https://stackoverflow.com/users/1370956/ryan-v</a>) applicable answers but have not found a solution. </p>
  
  <p>I am following the directions from disqus.com for this: </p>
  
  <p><a href="https://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/565624" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/565624</a></p>
  
  <p>but am having no success. My understanding is that all I need to do is: </p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Add the script with disqus_shortname replaced within it</li>
  <li>Insert a href tag with "#disqus_thread" appended to the end of the article url</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Once that is done I think the script should insert the comment count number and display it on the page -- but this isn't working for me. </p>
  
  <p>In tumblr you are supposed to insert a meta tag </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;meta name='text:Disqus Shortname' content='' /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but I don't believe that applies in my setting (although that didn't stop me from giving it a try). </p>
  
  <p>I can only assume that I'm missing something obvious. I wonder if the localhost environment is interrupting my testing since I am using a link to a localhost page that is displaying disqus comments. I also have tested using a live disqus comment page but with the same results.  </p>
  
  <p>DETAILS:
  Currently I have tested a number of wrong things, but I believe the following is the least-wrong:</p>
  
  <p>Script:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
      /* * * CONFIGURATION VARIABLES: EDIT BEFORE PASTING INTO YOUR WEBPAGE * * */
      var disqus_shortname = 'My-Shortname'; // required: replace example with your forum shortname
  
      /* * * DON'T EDIT BELOW THIS LINE * * */
      (function () {
          var s = document.createElement('script'); s.async = true;
          s.type = 'text/javascript';
          s.src = '//' + disqus_shortname + '.disqus.com/count.js';
          (document.getElementsByTagName('HEAD')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('BODY')[0]).appendChild(s);
      }());
  &lt;/script&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>HTML:
      <a href="http://localhost-link/#disqus_thread" rel="nofollow noreferrer"></a></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;a href="http://localhost-link/#disqus_thread"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
  </code></pre>