{"id":1555,"date":"2013-07-27T11:36:04","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T11:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.davelevy.info\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2025-06-17T20:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T20:30:10","slug":"disqus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/disqus\/","title":{"rendered":"Disqus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is page was originally created to document my use of Disqus supporting my snipsnap bliki. <a title=\"the ehlp page at Disqus\" href=\"http:\/\/help.disqus.com\/\">Disqus<\/a> is a &#8220;comment as a service&#8221; 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. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>TBH, I am surprised it&#8217;s still there, but it is, as are my comments, the most recent is dated 2021, and the one before that 2018. It&#8217;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/about.disqus.com\/disqus-101\/getting-started-with-disqus\">about Getting Started<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have tagged other articles as &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/tag\/disqus\/\">Disqus<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2013, I originally said, this means that a site developer&#8217;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 <a title=\"adding the wordpress disqus plugin\" href=\"http:\/\/disqus.com\/admin\/wordpress\/\">Disqus <\/a>and <a title=\"adding the wordpress disqus plugin, from wordpress\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/disqus-comment-system\/\">WordPress <\/a>sites. Google is <a title=\"google search : disqus wordpress plugin\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?q=disqus+wordpress+plugin&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official\">as helpful as ever&#8230;<\/a>. I think the wordpress plugin is an alternative to the wordpress commenting system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have bookmarked, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170623085423\/http:\/\/ustandout.com\/blogging\/why-wordpresss-native-commenting-system-beats-disqus-or-livefyre\">Why WordPress\u2019s Native Commenting System Beats Disqus or Livefyre dated 2013<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is page was originally created to document my use of Disqus supporting my snipsnap bliki. Disqus is a &#8220;comment as a service&#8221; 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. 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