My disqus comments count isn't showing up. What's wrong? - jekyll

Question

This is my repo and here is my live site. As you can see on my live site... the comments count never loads. It always reads Comments loading...
What is the ...#disqus_thread part doing in the a tag?
Here is my jekyll code that iterates through all posts:
<div class="posts">
{% for post in paginator.posts %}
<article class="post">
<h1 class="post-title">{{ post.title }}</h1>
<div class="entry">
<span> {{ post.excerpt }} [...] </span>
</div>
<span class="date front-page-date">{{ post.date | date: "%B %d, %Y" }}</span>
Comments Loading...
</article>
{% endfor %}
</div>
Here is my disqus layout/partial:
{% if site.disqus %}
<div class="comments">
<div id="disqus_thread"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var disqus_identifier = document.location.pathname.split("/").slice(1,5).join('');
var disqus_shortname = '{{ site.disqus }}';
(function() {
var dsq = document.createElement('script'); dsq.type = 'text/javascript'; dsq.async = true;
dsq.src = '//' + disqus_shortname + '.disqus.com/embed.js';
(document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(dsq);
})();
</script>
<noscript>Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.</noscript>
</div>
{% endif %}
And here is my disqus_count partial that is right above my closing body tag:
<script type="text/javascript">
/* * * CONFIGURATION VARIABLES: EDIT BEFORE PASTING INTO YOUR WEBPAGE * * */
var disqus_shortname = '{{ site.disqus }}';
/* * * 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);
}());
</script>
Each of my posts includes the disqus layout and so that works fine. But I am trying to show the number of comments that each post has in my jekyll index page. How do I do this? My spans do not seem to be working and in each of my disqus sections, I am using a disqus identifier which based off the url. What am I doing wrong?