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Disqus Commenting System No Longer Free

posted by n1 on Friday January 27 2017, @06:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the price-of-free-speech dept.

Celestial writes:

The Disqus website commenting system is no longer free, (as in beer).

When it comes to managing comments on a website, the free options include WordPress (and other native comment systems), Facebook comments, and [until recently] Livefyre (now owned by Adobe).

You also used to be able to use Disqus for free, but that changed this past week when the company started telling websites that use Disqus that they had to either sign up for the paid service or turn on the Disqus ads.

[...] Disqus offered clear benefits over the default WordPress comment system, including support for threaded comments, upvotes, spam detection (which clearly doesn't always work), comment moderation tools.

At the time Disqus was also completely free for most publishers. Over the years Disqus has rolled out a few different monetization options. Larger publishers can pay for premium features, and all sites can opt-in to Disqus ads, which can appear above or in the middle of the comments sections.

Starting later this week, all publishers using Disqus will have to either enable ads or pay for a subscription.

I honestly don't know which would be worse: advertisements, or websites currently using Disqus switching to Facebook comments.

Also at Liliputing.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by maxwell demon on Friday January 27 2017, @07:43AM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Friday January 27 2017, @07:43AM (#459368) Journal

    Just a crazy idea: Would it be possible to adapt Rehash so that it can provide comment sections on web pages?

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday January 27 2017, @11:28AM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Friday January 27 2017, @11:28AM (#459415) Homepage Journal

    Probably, yeah. If I put a mess more work into the API, redid the bits of logic that tied it to a story, changed up the db to be able to associate comments with a url instead of a discussion id, and wrote the javascript you'd need to include in your templates. Call it maybe two or three months dev time, including debugging. The real issue would be "holy fuck, look at all the new traffic we have to handle".

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