SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
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 Grishnakh on Friday January 27 2017, @05:00PM
That's a very good point. I'll counter that posting vitriol under your real name can work out well in some cases, it just depends a lot on your career. If you're a professional seeking to be hired by a decently-run company, it's not likely to help you, only hurt. If you're some type of celebrity of public figure, and your vitriol and postings actually appeal to the people who will help you in your quest for power or money, then it can be a huge help. That's what we just saw with this election. However, there are exceptions: if you're a professional and you want to work at a company where you're sure the company/hiring managers have the same political views as you and would actually appreciate your postings, then it might help. But to me, this seems like a big gamble. It's very easy to turn people off with political talk, esp. in today's highly polarized climate.
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Friday January 27 2017, @08:20PM
I intentionally refuse to censor or conceal my online identities for the sake of employers. The kinds of employers that would even look at a candidate's Facebook, let alone use it as a basis for hiring decisions, are the kind of petty tyrants that I wouldn't want to work for anyway. If they refuse to hire me because of something I posted online, I'd consider that to be dodging a bullet.