Disqus is a centralised data harvester and no better than Facebook as far as I can tell. Discourse is just another forum software, but it's open source and you

Disqus is a centralised data harvester and no better than Facebook as far as I can tell. Discourse is just another forum software, but it's open source and you can setup your own. Jeff's taken some of the ideas from StackOverflow and tried to apply them to forums. To be honest I think most people are happy with regular forums, they work as you expect and there aren't many rules to learn. I've come across Discourse forums a couple of times. Plotly charts use Discourse for their forum [0]. They work well, but as you say Discourse tried to rebrand the forum and so introduces a layer that most people just won't get. [0]: https://community.plot.ly/ https://community.plot.ly/