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I am struggling to understand why anybody thought that "outsourcing" blog comments was a good idea. It seems like a really simple database function that could b
by morpheos137 6y ago
I am struggling to understand why anybody thought that "outsourcing" blog comments was a good idea. It seems like a really simple database function that could be self hosted easily.
- breischl 6y agoWhen you want to do voting, moderation, new/hot/etc, handle potentially large loads, it can get to be a lot. Also, if you don't want anonymous commenters (because that contributes to spam and bad community) you get into the entire user/password management mess. Particularly if you're just some guy that wanted to blog stuff, rather than a content-centric media corporation. Plus there's some potential benefit to having a consistent identity across different sites. FWIW, Facebook was doing the exact same thing. I think they still do, though I don't see it as much.
- schwartzworld 6y agoI don't know about in the past, but a lot of devs are big on static sites now. Comments require the overhead of a server.