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Disqus only manages other people's comments. You're the blogger so as far as your comments are concerned you lose neither control or SEO value. That is unless

Disqus only manages other people's comments. You're the blogger so as far as your comments are concerned you lose neither control or SEO value. That is unless you were counting other people's comments as yours. Looking closer, it appears you spent "years" to build up the following 5 items in the NeoSmart files: Richard Stallman Attacks the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (83 comments) Possible Severe Gmail Security Vulnerability (Updated) (8 comments) OS X Snow Leopard to Use ULE Scheduler? (8 comments) Firefox 3 is Still a Memory Hog (86 comments) Shipping Seven is a Fraud. (36 comments) A quick glance shows that there is about 4 times as much user-contributed content as the content you wrote and the most discussed posts (presumably the ones you "worked really hard" at) are flamebait, including the recent Stallman item that spilled over into Hacker News.

rms 18y ago
>You're the blogger so as far as your comments are concerned you lose neither control or SEO value. This is very different than the current model, so you can understand why people would want to maintain the status quo. As far as SEO goes, Disqus is decidedly worse, even if it is a good idea to allow people to manage their comments.
- bayareaguy 18y ago
  I have mixed feelings about Disqus. - my JS is turned off so I can't see Disqus comments + keeping JS turned off reduces a lot of Disqus blog comment noise - Disqus presumably hurts blog comment SEO + none of the quality blogs I read care about blog comment SEO (they don't even have ads) + Disqus presumably could easily add useful features later, probably faster than individual bloggers would. - Disqus comments are managed by one organization, with all the inherent problems (availability, security, privacy, ...) I think I'd be more interested in them if they supported a way of pushing static HTML comment pages to third parties that both the blogger and the commenter could choose.

rms 18y ago

>You're the blogger so as far as your comments are concerned you lose neither control or SEO value. This is very different than the current model, so you can understand why people would want to maintain the status quo. As far as SEO goes, Disqus is decidedly worse, even if it is a good idea to allow people to manage their comments.

bayareaguy 18y ago
I have mixed feelings about Disqus. - my JS is turned off so I can't see Disqus comments + keeping JS turned off reduces a lot of Disqus blog comment noise - Disqus presumably hurts blog comment SEO + none of the quality blogs I read care about blog comment SEO (they don't even have ads) + Disqus presumably could easily add useful features later, probably faster than individual bloggers would. - Disqus comments are managed by one organization, with all the inherent problems (availability, security, privacy, ...) I think I'd be more interested in them if they supported a way of pushing static HTML comment pages to third parties that both the blogger and the commenter could choose.