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What I do care about, however, is that blog comments are broken. Fundamentally broken, and Disqus' universal commenting approach solves (or nearly solves) that issue.
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Aaron Breslow
It only protects against bots
-Mokothemonkey
Captcha has certainly stopped them on my blog with Askimet. Would like to
return to Disqus at some point.
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Aaron Breslow
So those are the nice things about it. However, their website is not user friendly for those of a challenged technical nature.
What about making the system more understandable and user friendly?
Question: What, exactly, could be more important to the Disqus staff than making their system understandable - and appealing - to the huge number of Web users that are not technical minded?
Their website's setup instructions presupposes a better than fair degree of technical sophistication that may not be available to the average user. Also, some of the setup instructions have been written in a very sloppy way and are confusing.
Again, I'm going to ask the most important question, business-wise:
What could be more important for Discus than making their front end as user friendly and compelling as what it can be?
Why promote a system aimed only at the small segment of tech savvy Web users...when it could be so much better to make it appeal to a wider audience?
Mokothemonkey
Cheers.
I'll have to check out that............................... :)
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Evelyn Tiffany - dedicated server programmer.
Now - if someone builds some robust API blog integration where the comments are loaded server-side, that may make up all the difference. For now, though, DISQUS is hurting blogs by hiding this priceless content from the engines.
1. your comments are stored on the disqus server
don't you want to retain,control your own comments? don't you want the SEO benefits of having your comments on your site? do you want to loose access to your comments when the disqus servers go down? do you want disqus mining your comments?
2. you are limited to the functionality provided by disqus
what if you want to utilize new functionality provided by other plugins, e.g.. trackbacks, most recent comments? do you want to be at the mercy of disqus to provide these features?
3. import / export, older comments disappearing (mentioned above)
do you want to "loose" your older comments? if you decide to leave disqus in the future are you sure you'll be able to return successfully, easily?
there needs to be alternatives which provide the desired functionality without replacing your comment system.
#2: I have trackbacks intact on my b2evolution and blogspot blogs. DISQUS provides "most recent comments" and two more currently, and I believe there will be more. I am not at the mercy of DISQUS if you want to know.
#3: Yah, I can return successfully, easily.
Adding #4: such services are here to stay. I call it "Comments 2.0". :p
Yah yah, everything is becoming "2.0" haha
The recently launched Disqus V3 didn't actually add much functionality - it broke the product into two logical services, overhauled the UI and improved the anti-spam measures.
The only difference for the commenter was that comments appear immediately without the need for a refresh.
Also, note that JS-Kit/Echo talks about 'real time aggregation' but that is a premium service ($98 per year) whereas Disqus is free.
I also like the fact that Disqus calls such links from Twitter, FriendFeed etc as 'Reaction's and lists them separately from true comments. That is a very important distinction IMHO.