Disqus is the best service I've seen in a very long time--brilliant. Disqus is good for commenters because it gives them a record of all their comments across different blogs, builds their reputation, and gives them some ownership of what they publish. Furthermore, it keeps commenters looped into a conversation when they participate. I rarely used to comment pre-disqus, because even if I posted something interesting and someone else had a response, I would never see it. With disqus, when I comment on a blog and someone responds, I get an email and stay in the conversation. (I can also reply to this email to post a response back--this reply via email feature, I think, greatly increases the number of comments per blog post).
Because their is so much benefit to the commenter making her more likely to comment, the blog owner gets the immediate benefit of a better conversation around their posts.
Plus, where friend feed simply fragments conversation around a blog post and creates one more point that the blog owner must monitor in order to keep in touch with his community, disqus centralizes conversation around the original piece of content. Disqus makes life easier for content publishers, where friend feed just creates more work for content publishers.
charlieanzman
· 1 year ago
Thanks for chiming in. Nice to know this piece is still 'making the rounds' ... Charlie
Louis Gray
· 1 year ago
Disqus is a fantastic tool, and it has made commenting and tracking and threading significantly better since I installed it on my blog a few months ago. Highly recommended.
KnightKnetwork
· 1 year ago
I'm particularly fond of the reply to comment by e-mail feature. Self hosted Wordpress users can also avoid the loss of comment SEO juice by using the plugin. It uses the API instead of javascript and does well in Google indexing, or at least it did in my little experiment: http://knightknetwork.com/2008/06/11/disqus-seo...
felix
· 1 year ago
I agree that Disqus' future is very bright, I use it on my little blog. :) I'm curious, though, that you draw the conclusion that comments showing up on FriendFeed is good for Disqus. I would guess the inverse relationship, FF doesn't care if you comment on a disqus blog because that content can show up on FF, but it would seem to be a problem for Disqus if all commenting appeared on FF isntead of on the blog itself - Disqus gets nothing when comments are off blog. No?
silpol
· 1 year ago
there is litlle hiccup - Disqus shall be 99.999% reliable, or all comments might disappear just like Twitter keep us happy with plenty of offline life ;)
MortenBlaabjerg
· 1 year ago
Disqus is very promising, although I can't help but feel they're shooting too high too fast for their own good.
Julian Baldwin
· 1 year ago
Morten,
Would you care to elaborate a little? What are you seeing that I'm not?
MortenBlaabjerg
· 1 year ago
Ah... it's the high risk of keeping all this data in one central location which bugs me a bit I guess - and the demand for scaling a business such as this. I see great great opportunity and prospects for what D is doing, not just for blogs, but also for businesses and products. I just worry if they'd been better off tempering their growth, learn from inputs and then launch v2 with a lot of fixes, and then, when they got it all just where people are craving for it, scale, with all that this entails.
Right now, as I write this, the CSS of the thread is totally mixed up. This kind of thing doesn't inspire confidence, when you're talking about entrusting D with all one's comments. And the email stuff which people seem to rave about have yet to work for me. I have yet to receive an email from Disqus. I just saw your comment by chance. All these things add up.
All that said, so far I have a very difficult time going back from Disqus.
This article got me curious enough to sign up. Liking it a lot so far. Happy to finally have comments on my tumblr page.
aac74
· 1 year ago
Friendfeed comments are different to disqus comments. Most people on friendfeed are just commenting on the title without having read the post ! No threading. Long comments get ignored. Authors less likely to respond. Only FF users see the comments there. Friendfeed has an API so it should be possible for disqus to display FF comments too or at least a link to the FF post.
Sachin Sawant
· 1 year ago
No doubt disqus is a very good commenting system......... but ID is catching up............ now ID also streaming on FF......... the big minus with disqus is that it haven't came up with import option...............
Jake (aka Jawee)
· 1 year ago
I know the reasoning is lame, but I like Disqus because my comments will show up on my FriendFeed. A few discussions have started from blog comments I have made, so it is nice to have it. There are a lot of other blog comments I would like to see in my FriendFeed but there is no good way to do that (that I know of anyway).
charlieanzman
· 1 year ago
Jake - Reasoning isn't lame at all. it's more than half the reason I use it :)
nappy_rash
· 1 year ago
I agree, it's a totally awesome tool
internet marketing secrets
· 11 months ago
disqus is definitely above the rest in this market. I'm interested also to see how they monetize this service.
SEO Consultant
· 10 months ago
Im looking to use this tool, might give it a go today
john
· 9 months ago
yes you can use it and it is very useful
Zer0_II
· 9 months ago
just wanted to test out your comment section
VideoGames Radar
· 8 months ago
Thanks for all your posts, I dig the blog.
charlieanzman
· 8 months ago
Thanks much! The good news ... The plan is finally to return to daily in about 7 days +/- with more unique content. Stay tuned!
Σχολή Χορού
· 8 months ago
Cheers from one more Discus fan from Greece. Nice post!
charlieanzman
· 8 months ago
Love the way this post keeps returning. Happy to know we're being read in Sunny Greece! :) Thanks
websitedesignservice
· 8 months ago
website design service I get an email and stay in the conversation. (I can also reply to this email to post a response back--this reply via email feature, I think,
websitedesignservice
· 8 months ago
Ecommerce Web Design almost everyone that is publishing to, or 'feeding' Friendfeed.com, are seeing more comments there than on their own blogs.
Freelance web designer
· 8 months ago
what about spammers is Disqus really safe?
charlieanzman
· 8 months ago
I have it set to drop me an e-mail when comments are made. The spam filter is pretty good. A few have slipped through but not many.
SEO Services Los Angeles
· 7 months ago
I did install this disqus but I still have spam blockers.
authorityseo
· 5 months ago
I just started using Disqus and the more I use it the more I kept thinking how are they making money. I will be interested if you are right that eventually they are going to monetize once it is on all the different blogs and they don't want to take it off.
Alex27
· 4 months ago
Disqus is excellent for comments!
instrumentals
· 4 months ago
Good post. ive actually been thinking about adding disqus to my own blog
charlieanzman
· 4 months ago
Always fascinating to see a comment on a post a year old. I still feel that Disqus provides more versatility (and pretty good spam filtering) as compared with the recent implementations on large blogs of say Facebook Connect and / or Twitter. Thanks for stopping by!
Joe Peach
· 2 months ago
Would be great if you could elaborate on how you see Disqus monetizing?
1 year on from when this was first written is disqus 'huge'? I'm not too sure it is.
charlieanzman
· 2 months ago
Joe - As you probably know, there are numerous products that innovate before monetizing and/or selling (IE: Friendfeed). Disqus has some challenges (with Facebook making it easier to connect etc.) but continues to engage the user community directy and add features not to mention exceptional uptime. Still calling a 'win' here. We'll see. Thanks, Charlie
Affiliateo.com
· 2 months ago
Probably the best web application for comments to use on your website.
scottfasser
· 2 months ago
I like Disqus but wondering what value it adds to a blog site from an SEO perspecitve or additional traffic perspective? As a user, I like have all of my comments in a central spot and the features for a blogger are good, but what about the content display and SEO value?
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Because their is so much benefit to the commenter making her more likely to comment, the blog owner gets the immediate benefit of a better conversation around their posts.
Plus, where friend feed simply fragments conversation around a blog post and creates one more point that the blog owner must monitor in order to keep in touch with his community, disqus centralizes conversation around the original piece of content. Disqus makes life easier for content publishers, where friend feed just creates more work for content publishers.
Would you care to elaborate a little? What are you seeing that I'm not?
Right now, as I write this, the CSS of the thread is totally mixed up. This kind of thing doesn't inspire confidence, when you're talking about entrusting D with all one's comments. And the email stuff which people seem to rave about have yet to work for me. I have yet to receive an email from Disqus. I just saw your comment by chance. All these things add up.
All that said, so far I have a very difficult time going back from Disqus.
is Disqus really safe?
1 year on from when this was first written is disqus 'huge'? I'm not too sure it is.