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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.
Also at Liliputing.
(Score: 2) by Unixnut on Friday January 27 2017, @02:59PM
> can join Diaspora
Is Diaspora still a thing? I remember them saying they were shutting down years ago. Would be nice to know if I was misinformed. Additionally If it is any good then might even be worth looking into setting up my own.
(Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Friday January 27 2017, @04:20PM
I have an account and still see updates on my timeline... (Don't want to link here, because it is clear-name and I don't want to get it linked to my pseudonym here)
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(Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Friday January 27 2017, @04:59PM
I just checked the wiki page [wikipedia.org]. The software is still further developed [github.com]
Actually I'm considering setting up my own pod. My main current account is hosted somewhere else, and works fine, and on my first attempt I had some problems setting up my own server (I sincerely hate ruby. I had to deal with so much version chaos of test scripts, different set of gems, different incompatible ruby versions, rvm killing basic operating system features in extremely creative ways, etc. that I really, sincerely have an aversion against this language.), but I noticed that there are several docker-files and -images available nowadays, so it shouldn't be hard anymore to set something up.
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