This is page was originally created to document my use of Disqus supporting my snipsnap bliki. Disqus is a “comment as a service” web site. I revisited it in June 2025. I am not sure how I am going to do this as the snipsnap content is no longer required. I am a bit surprised that it has survived but it is going strong.
TBH, I am surprised it’s still there, but it is, as are my comments, the most recent is dated 2021, and the one before that 2018. It’s changed, creating channels and publications. The latter, I think are from sites that use disqus as their commenting solution the first, looks like its positioning itself as a reddit like forums site. I was looking at it to see if it might help scaling and reach. It seems that the ability to use it as a micro-blog/status-sphere has gone. Here is, what they say about Getting Started.
I have tagged other articles as “Disqus“
In 2013, I originally said, this means that a site developer’s need not develop a comment system, nor a comment authentication system. Some may feel that using Disqus breaks the or weakens the boundaries of the site community. It potentially allows commenters a better management of their identity. The wordpress anti-spam features would not work on discuss comments. Moderation would be through two panels. It has plugins for wordpress, with documentation at both Disqus and WordPress sites. Google is as helpful as ever…. I think the wordpress plugin is an alternative to the wordpress commenting system.
I have bookmarked, Why WordPress’s Native Commenting System Beats Disqus or Livefyre dated 2013.
I decided I needed this page for a 2025 update and removed certain sections of the original.
Most importantly I had documented how to use Disqus with snipsnap. These comments I have moved to https://davelevy.info/wiki/developing-snipsnap/