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I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse

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Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse

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Post by dylan604 »

fifteen1506 wrote: post #125
tetris11 wrote: post #102

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I think the poster is lamenting the general quality of all advertised products in general. If it's a brand of good quality (Miele, Henry, DeLonghi) it probably does not need to be advertised, as word of mouth and price point is generally enough.

Maybe. Stealing ad space from a competitor may be in itself valuable. Another metric comes to my mind: if a newcomer has money to spend on ads, then it's a stable firm. I'm sure there are more.

This is something people don't credit enough. How many times have you search for something by name and received a direct competitor's product as top result? This is why I put no stock in digital ads for the little guy. The bigger guy will always have a larger ad buy budget and will outbid you at every turn.

Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse

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Post by dylan604 »

saghm wrote: post #174
fifteen1506 wrote: post #123

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50, actually.

There could be more! The title doesn't specify they're the only ones.

Right, the title also doesn't state the bit depth the color values are stored. There could be 64, 128, 256, 1024, 64million shades. Data Inadequate. I'm really surprised this was missed on this forum!

Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse

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Post by thesuitonym »

dylan604 wrote: post #214
wizzwizz4 wrote: post #207

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You have a curated directory of actually decent stuff, and you list the item there. Don't wrestle with the pigs.

And how do you get people to view said directory if they've never heard of it?

Consider that Hacker News does not advertise, and yet somehow you are here.

Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse

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Post by jrmg »

miltonlost wrote: post #189
jrmg wrote: post #181

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I agree the current administration is way worse than the previous one in almost every respect, but to argue that the previous one would’ve enforced this particular thing is obviously untrue. The situation’s been like this for a few years now.

Not fake ads, but Biden's FTC did go after fake reviewers and fake reviews: https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/us-ftc-fina... If she had had more time, I could see Khan going after fake ads as well. There's nothing to me that suggests that she was deliberately ignoring fraudulent ads when she was extremely pro-consumer in nearly every other policy.

Agreed - I think it’s lack of resources. Congress would need to act to fix this.

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Post by RajT88 »

mort96 wrote: post #193
RajT88 wrote: post #184

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There's a lot of that going around in the US these days.

And everywhere else, honestly. It's not like banner ads on the web are particularly honest here in the EU/EEA.

I was referring specifically to, "laws not being enforced".

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Post by ethmarks »

guywithahat wrote: post #208
huijzer wrote: post #30

I just can't be bothered to have comments on my site. It adds nothing but headaches. Cross-posting articles to HN or Reddit for comments is a much nicer way, I think.

But then people who find your blog can't comment on it without knowing the cross-post, and you risk spamming HN

Perhaps one could link to cross-posts from the blog? Maybe a "Discuss on HN" button. And the solution to avoid spamming HN is to avoid writing a large volume of low-quality content on the blog.

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Post by edoceo »

conradfr wrote: post #155
secondcoming wrote: post #130

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Websites get to control what ads are displayed. If a website integrates with Taboola they're explixitly opting in to these crap ads.

It doesn't work for adsense as they basically get a new account every day so you can't effectively block scams.

Google can't figure out rate-limiting and trust-leveling/ramp?

Sure they can; it just slows the money-pipe

Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse

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Post by EGreg »

Ah, color me shocked that capitalism leads to enshittification over time. Why would people embed a for-profit third party platform in their Web 1.0 site and let them do whatever they want? Because they don’t have the software to do “social” Web 2.0 stuff themselves.

Perhaps there should be an open source alternative. Why isn’t there one by now?

Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse

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Post by sorcercode »

erikig wrote: post #115

As far as alternatives go, there was an interesting post a few weeks ago on using Bluesky as a commenting platform. It improves discoverability and adds a social aspect to comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44826164 I’ve also found HN to be a great commenting platform too.

here's a similar implementation for Bluesky that I whipped up sometime back.

https://kau.sh/blog/bluesky-comments-for-hugo/

I like my implementation cause it blends really well with the blog making it looks almost native.

transferring the burden of maintenance - curation to a social media platform (and a slightly more open one to boot) has been a complete win.

Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse

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Post by edoceo »

zenmac wrote: post #206
niutech wrote: post #93

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Not necessarily 10 years ago, you cannot comment on a HN post even from a month ago!

Why is that? Be good to join discussion from the past and bring back some zombie thread? No?

No. Re-post / start a new thread. Many times the old-threads will be cross-linked (I see this pattern a lot on HN)
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