Let’s Disqus the Social Times

Posted by Nick O'Neill on August 18th, 2008 12:59 PM

Disqus Logo - At the beginning of June I announced that Disqus had “out opened” my comments. While the service made a lot of sense, I still refrained from adding the service for one primary reason: I couldn’t keep a local backup of my comments. In their most recent version, Disqus has resolved the problem and now users can maintain a local copy of comments while taking advantage of the Disqus tool.

I previously suggested that one of the primary reasons that I liked Disqus was that comments posted by users showed up in FriendFeed. Theoretically, I could import a feed of comments on my site but this way, the comment will show up twice: once from my site and once in the user’s feed. Is there any other benefit to using Disqus? Well, one other feature that I find to be useful is threaded comments.

Additionally there is supposedly better spam filters. I have yet to test the system for long enough to know but I’m guessing the company can back up their claims. Finally, being able to reply to the comments via mobile makes things a heck of a lot easier for me. While I could have logged into wordpress and then commented on my site previously, this service makes things quick and easy.

Aside from that I have yet to figure out any other reasons to add Disqus. It has a nice design and it has worked so far so I’m sticking with it for now. Have you used Disqus? Is there any disadvantages of the service? Are there any benefits that I’m missing here?

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