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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.
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Friday January 27 2017, @02:06PM
Yes, that makes sense. I would love to see the symmetric internet happen on the hardware layer, too. It is critical to our collective future freedom and happiness and prosperity to shuffle off 19th-century style systems of centralized control.
As a vague, unformed, and likely easily shoot-downable thought, I have long felt Slashdot's and now Soylent's commenting system is the best I've ever experienced. I wonder if it could be packaged as FLOSS for the purpose of replacing Disqus and its like. It would be a positive thing to improve the quality of public discourse, which is critical to the process of consensus formation without which no democracy can function.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Friday January 27 2017, @08:58PM
I'd certainly like to see that, but my host would have to implement it. I could use it for my blog, but I don't trust any of the packages they have (and there are tons of tools).
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