Debating Disqus – Seems Stupid

74 | Posted In Blogging by David

I’ve thought about it. I checked out Disqus and pondered the idea of using it for this blog. I see that some other bloggers are using it. But, it is a bit of a scary proposition at this point. Why?

I generated some talk in the last couple days about comment fragmention. There are comments on your blog and then there are the ones out on FriendFeed and other similar services. At the end of the day, I don’t personally care where a conversation takes place. At the same time, though, it is nice having comments ON my blog.

What bothers me about Disqus is the notion of completing hosting my comments elsewhere. That is like the complete end game of fragmentation, leaving nothing left at the source. Of course I can display the comments here, but they are stored somewhere else.

So, could I bring the comments back into WordPress if I chose? From this discussion, it seems the answer is no but they are working on it. And what happens if Disqus goes the way of the dodo? Did I just lose everything? Also, it seems as if you can’t moderate your own comments inside WP anymore. Apparently, they are working on a plug-in for that. So, not only are all my comments now on a remote server, but I have to separately log into a remote server to moderate them?

Fred, from “A VC”, listed his 3 reasons to use Disqus. Problem is, only one of those reasons is compelling: the ability to have shared profiles across blogs. I like the centralization. Kinda like FriendFeed. The other two reasons are mute because it can easily be done with a plug-in. Scott points out the drawbacks of Disqus quite well, actually.

So, it leaves me wondering, why the hell are so many bloggers (over 4,000 of them, according to their site) converting? Do they want the centralization so bad that they’re willing to throw out the baby with the bath water? It seems to me like you would be completely killing all the benefits from having comments on your own site.

Seems like a bonehead move to me at this point.

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