Dropping Disqus

by keif on April 28, 2008

I’ve broken up with Disqus.

I like what they’re doing – the whole “one-stop shopping for commenting.” It integrated well. It was pretty neat. Lots of sites adopt it.

But I don’t like branding my site with your name. I don’t like being able to not manage my stuff locally. I don’t like you having a log of everyone that chooses to leave me comments. I like to give people a little privacy. And I’m just not getting that vibe.

Don’t get me wrong – it’s a great service that’s always worked for me.

But I can duplicate the same functionality with some WordPress plugins and a little javascript.

My goal is to do so – sooner than I disabled duplicate postings from twitter as blog postings daily.

Tagged as: content, disqus, duplicity, twitter, wordpress plugins

  • http://www.afhill.com/blog Andrea Hill

    We’re going in opposite directions – I JUST integrated it! My concern was with the fact that the comments are no longer on my site, so it’s not “my” content..
    now you have me rethinking things…

  • http://ikeif.net keif

    Yeah, that was my other concern. We (as people, and as bloggers) are growing accustomed to giving away our content, our metrics, our information – with no regards to concern, security, or a myriad of other factors.

    That could just be me being paranoid, but I *like* owning my own content and hanging on to my data! (Well, I use Google Analytics until something better comes along, but that’s a convenience thing).

  • http://www.sezwho.com/blog Jitendra

    Keif, Good points…It is indeed important to own owns content for not only avoiding a sigle point of failure but also for SEO etc.

    Take a look at SezWho which add better community features without taking over your content and without too much branding…let me know what you think.

    Thanks, Jitendra

  • tedd

    Hi Keif,

    Tedd @ SezWho.com here.
    Comments / feedback always welcome.
    Look forward to hearing from you.

    - tedd

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