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Re: Three Reasons To Use Disqus

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Post by gexla »

Xichekolas wrote: post #4

He forgot the most important reason (to me): You can stick a fully functional comment system on anything without doing it yourself. Why reinvent the wheel and deal with managing your own when you can just tack on an excellent system by someone else?

How far do you want to take this though? Why not just use Blogger or Wordpress.com? Why custom code your own blog?

BTW, I assume you are talking about a custom coded blog (or whatever is being commented) because systems like Wordpress or ExpressionEngine make adding commenting trivially easy.

Re: Three Reasons To Use Disqus

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Post by njetx »

We've been looking at adding CoComment to our site which I think is very similar. I have been using it and I like the way it records all the comments I make which I can then go back and refer to. However, it feels like we provide them with new customers and we don't get a ton back in return.

Anyone implement it or Disqus?

Re: Three Reasons To Use Disqus

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Post by ssharp »

gexla wrote: post #10

I am not convinced. I do see the advantages but I would rather have the text on my blog. The comment text gives your blog a little more life in the eyes of Google and adds just a little more content. If I don't want to mess with creating a comment system then why did I build my own blog in the first place? I think a good compromise to make things easier for the commenter is to use Clickpass for easy login. I don't mi…

It's a two way street - a long discussion on a topic with a specific keyword can hurt your ranking for that keyword if the discussions aren't using the phrase you're targeting.

I love the quick and easy functionality that Disqus has and am using it on a few of my blogs. I'd like to set it up for my companies web properties but am reluctant because we already have our own login and user systems.

Re: Three Reasons To Use Disqus

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Post by ssharp »

gaika wrote: post #5

And the biggest reason not to: javascript is required. It causes really bad problems in IE: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/04/23/what-happened-to...

I'd have to think that they are working on an API solution that will have MT and WordPress plugins that use it...The JS problem is just too big not to be addressed.

Re: Three Reasons To Use Disqus

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Post by Xichekolas »

gexla wrote: post #11
Xichekolas wrote: post #4

He forgot the most important reason (to me): You can stick a fully functional comment system on anything without doing it yourself. Why reinvent the wheel and deal with managing your own when you can just tack on an excellent system by someone else?

How far do you want to take this though? Why not just use Blogger or Wordpress.com? Why custom code your own blog? BTW, I assume you are talking about a custom coded blog (or whatever is being commented) because systems like Wordpress or ExpressionEngine make adding commenting trivially easy.

I have coded my own blog in the past, and yeah, after a while it's boring and so I just use Blogger now. But you can stick comments on more than just blog entries.

At least I was under the impression that you could put Disqus comments on anything really (is that not true?). It would be trivially easy to make a site like HN... just a list of links and with disqus comments for each of them. I am working on a project right now where people can suggest strategies for something and others can comment on them. Disqus would be an easy fit there as well.

You could host your own photos with some quick gallery code too, but why not let Flickr do it? I think Disqus is in the same category.

Re: Three Reasons To Use Disqus

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Post by bootload »

mosburger wrote: post #15

OK, this might be a really stupid question. If so, I apologize, but... What happens if Disqus goes out of business? Do all of your comments evaporate? Or are the comments stored locally somehow?

"... What happens if Disqus goes out of business? Do all of your comments evaporate? ..."

A quick look at the website would reveal, "No" ~ http://disqus.com/help/#faq-6

  I use Disqus because it gives me 
  "the freedom to leave" at anytime
Understand that data "Lock-in" is the new "Lock-out". If Disqus does collapse, I still have my data because I have access to it now. To understand why this is important read about "The zen of free" ~ http://asay.blogspot.com/2006/06/simon-phipps-on-zen-of-free... by Simon Phipps.

Re: Three Reasons To Use Disqus

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Post by brlewis »

Xichekolas wrote: post #18
gexla wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How far do you want to take this though? Why not just use Blogger or Wordpress.com? Why custom code your own blog? BTW, I assume you are talking about a custom coded blog (or whatever is being commented) because systems like Wordpress or ExpressionEngine make adding commenting trivially easy.

I have coded my own blog in the past, and yeah, after a while it's boring and so I just use Blogger now. But you can stick comments on more than just blog entries. At least I was under the impression that you could put Disqus comments on anything really (is that not true?). It would be trivially easy to make a site like HN... just a list of links and with disqus comments for each of them. I am working on a project ri…

Yes, you can put Disqus comments on anything that's for public consumption and has a permalink.

If you enable Disqus comments on OurDoings, any photo you deem worthy of a caption will get its own comment thread.

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