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One advantage of not using WordPress is not having to spend a couple hours every week restoring the latest backup you have because you got hacked again.
Been running WordPress with WordFence, Akismet antispam, and CloudFlare on a site that gets a sizable amount of traffic. No hacks yet - it's not the same insecure mess it was a decade ago.
"lack of control on our own data (the comments, in this case)" That's what worries me about every single website out there. Suddenly they consider users' comments "their own data"
Why not? You leave a comment on a website, the websites stores it, it's the websites data.
Ironically, while trying to post this comment I got ... Bad gateway: The web server reported a bad gateway error.
Why not remove comments entirely? Most people engage on secondary platforms (twitter, facebook) anyway, and most comments are garbage in my experience. Ironically, while trying to post this comment I got ... Bad gateway: The web server reported a bad gateway error.
Another thread on the front page right now is talking about how it's very difficult to get views on your blogs now. And I've felt the same. 5-10 years ago I used to get 2-3 digit views on my posts. And I used to use Wordpress / Blogger and the like. Then, when it became fashionable, I spent a lot of time (at least 20-30 hrs, and mind you this was not the geeky kind of work, it was like refactoring code using just gre…
> definitely have no interest whatsoever in spending any more time doing DevOps for the blog. Honestly that's why I use a managed blogging host. I have better things to do with my time, such as writing content.
Why not remove comments entirely? Most people engage on secondary platforms (twitter, facebook) anyway, and most comments are garbage in my experience. Ironically, while trying to post this comment I got ... Bad gateway: The web server reported a bad gateway error.
The author can't read the comments if people only make them on other platforms.
Why not remove comments entirely? Most people engage on secondary platforms (twitter, facebook) anyway, and most comments are garbage in my experience. Ironically, while trying to post this comment I got ... Bad gateway: The web server reported a bad gateway error.
The author can't read the comments if people only make them on other platforms.
I would love to see a comments system that provided insight into commentary occurring across the web. Is there a good reason why online discourse is still fragmented?
I understand the sentiment to move away from Disqus. How does this project compare to Mozilla's Coral Project[0]? [0]: https://coralproject.net/products/talk.html
Developer with The Coral Project here. Schnack seems to provide a simple solution to the "let us put some comments on the site" in a very simple and pleasantly small package. (Like seriously small, we're jealous of those numbers :)) Talk on the other hand provides a full admin panel for moderators, a robust plugin system for configuring every part of the experience. Admittedly, not every small blog is going to need a…
From the site, Ask and Talk seem to be aimed exclusively at News Sites (Online Journalism.)
What's your Team's take on using Talk/Ask for other purposes like Blogs or community sites for companies?