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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: 5, Insightful) by TheRaven on Friday January 27 2017, @10:21AM

    by TheRaven (270) on Friday January 27 2017, @10:21AM (#459406) Journal
    Having Disqus comments is the same as having no comments for me. Ghostery blocks them, because they track your web browsing habits across multiple sites (it blocks Facebook for the same reason). Hopefully this will lead to sites running their own comment systems.
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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 27 2017, @06:31PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 27 2017, @06:31PM (#459615)

    maybe switch to disconnect instead of ghostery. disconnect is open source. ghostery is made by advertisers and is closed.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by Pino P on Friday January 27 2017, @06:41PM

      by Pino P (4721) on Friday January 27 2017, @06:41PM (#459622) Journal

      In fact, equivalent functionality to the Disconnect extension is built into every Mozilla Firefox browser. Go to about:config and turn on privacy.trackingprotection.enabled.

  • (Score: 2) by edIII on Friday January 27 2017, @09:29PM

    by edIII (791) on Friday January 27 2017, @09:29PM (#459717)

    Ditto :)

    My knowledge of Disqus is exactly limited to that Ghostery block image that says 'Disqus is blocked'.

    There is only one place on the Internet I comment on anything, and that is right here. Well, technical mailing lists are excluded since my real name is there along with an actual phone number to reach me. That's business. Personal wise, Soylent is it.

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