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Indeed. One of the reasons disqus and the like are popular is that they take care of hosting the comments. And having user content on a separate domain isn't a
by ChrisSD 9y ago
Indeed. One of the reasons disqus and the like are popular is that they take care of hosting the comments.
And having user content on a separate domain isn't a bad idea from a security pov.
- michaelmior 9y agoNothing's stopping you from running a self-hosted solution on a different domain.
- ChrisSD 9y agoSure, but then you have to run a self hosted solution on another domain. It's far easier if someone else is willing to do it for you at a low cost (or even free).
- acgIssues 9y agoAccording to the article, this "free" service comes at the cost of their readers privacy, not being in control of your whole blog (comments) and increased loading time because of the size/requests needed.
- michaelmior 9y agoSeems like this would easily run on the free tier of Heroku for a blog with modest traffic.