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Dropping Disqus

By keif | 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. http://ikeif.net/2008/04/28/dropping-disqus/

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Comment by Andrea Hill
2008-04-28 18:29:49

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…

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Comment by keif
2008-04-29 08:47:52

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).

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Comment by Jitendra
2008-04-29 12:47:33

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

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Comment by tedd
2008-04-30 12:29:14

Hi Keif,

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

- tedd

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