{"id":2409,"date":"2008-05-10T22:18:09","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T02:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=2409"},"modified":"2008-05-10T22:18:09","modified_gmt":"2008-05-11T02:18:09","slug":"my-verdict-on-disqus-two-thumbs-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/05\/10\/my-verdict-on-disqus-two-thumbs-up\/","title":{"rendered":"My verdict on Disqus: Two thumbs up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There seems to be a mini-bitchmeme brewing, sparked by VC blogger Fred Wilson&#8217;s recent <a href=\"http:\/\/avc.blogs.com\/a_vc\/2008\/05\/three-reasons-t.html\">post about Disqus<\/a>, which is the commenting system that I use on this blog and many others use as well. Why Fred decided to write about Disqus at this point I don&#8217;t know &#8212; maybe to give the company some free publicity, who knows. In any case, he listed three reasons why he thinks every blogger should use it, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>threaded discussions<\/li>\n<li>email replies<\/li>\n<li>shared profiles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That was followed relatively quickly by a post from David Risley, in which he said that Disqus <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidrisley.com\/2008\/05\/10\/debating-disqus-seems-stupid\/\">seemed &#8220;stupid&#8221;<\/a>, primarily because the comments are hosted somewhere else, and therefore they don&#8217;t integrate with a blog&#8217;s existing comments and if Disqus disappears then those comments are gone for good. Others have noted that Disqus <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.blogcosm.com\/2008\/05\/10\/disqus-comment-plug-fans-missing-features-and-gotcha\/\">doesn&#8217;t support<\/a> trackbacks either &#8212; which I have also mentioned in the past as a drawback of the system, and something I would like to see.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, Daniel Ha of Disqus has promised that both trackbacks and data exportability are coming to Disqus, which would remove a couple of the major complaints about the service. But even with those flaws &#8212; or missing features &#8212; I am happy to use it, and Fred puts his finger on one big reason why: the ability to <a href=\"http:\/\/avc.blogs.com\/a_vc\/2008\/05\/three-reasons-t.html\">respond to comments<\/a> instantly via email (and also to approve or delete spam via email). As Fred notes, this is huge. And it is handled seamlessly. <\/p>\n<p>Spam &#8212; which <a href=\"http:\/\/dondodge.typepad.com\/the_next_big_thing\/2008\/05\/three-reasons-t.html\">Don Dodge mentions<\/a> as an issue in his post &#8212; has also been virtually eradicated. I think in the months I&#8217;ve had it integrated with my blog, I&#8217;ve had Disqus email me twice or maybe three times with a possible spam comment, and in each case I simply replied with &#8220;delete&#8221; or &#8220;approve&#8221; and it was handled. Like Fred <a href=\"http:\/\/howardlindzon.com\/?p=3567\">and Howard<\/a>, I would encourage anyone looking for a better comment system to give it a try. The benefits far outweigh the drawbacks, as far as I&#8217;m concerned. Carlos says he thinks that Google should <a href=\"http:\/\/mymemestream.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/i-think-google-should-and-possibly.html\">buy Disqus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There seems to be a mini-bitchmeme brewing, sparked by VC blogger Fred Wilson&#8217;s recent post about Disqus, which is the commenting system that I use on this blog and many others use as well. Why Fred decided to write about Disqus at this point I don&#8217;t know &#8212; maybe to give the company some free &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/05\/10\/my-verdict-on-disqus-two-thumbs-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My verdict on Disqus: Two thumbs up&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}