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 Pino P on Friday January 27 2017, @06:46PM
you're just not going to see it without paying or disabling your ad-blocker (or using some technical means to get around the block). So far, it really isn't a problem.
Until someone gives you heck here on SN for making uninformed comments due to not having read the featured article.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday January 27 2017, @07:02PM
They really do that here?
I'd just tell them to go screw themselves. AFAIC, if an article is pay-walled or ad-block-blocked, then I'm under zero obligation to read it before making all the commentary I want. If they want me to read the article, they better find an accessible source for it.
Maybe this site should simply have a policy that no pay-walled or ad-block-blocked links are allowed.