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I am using Disqus right now on my blog, it'll be interesting to see what WP does with this. The bad news for Disqus is the just added a feature to their plugin

I am using Disqus right now on my blog, it'll be interesting to see what WP does with this. The bad news for Disqus is the just added a feature to their plugin so that comments are now stored both locally as well as on disqus.com - meaning you could drop Disqus and you wouldn't lose any comments. If ID does become default on all WP.com blogs, I think it would probably snowball and convince me to go over to ID as well - the whole point of disqus was it was more prevalent on blogs I read, so I figured my readers would be more likely to have disqus accounts. Of course, if you're on HN, you might have both =P

SwellJoe 18y ago
The bad news for Disqus is the just added a feature to their plugin so that comments are now stored both locally as well as on disqus.com This "bad news" was reponsible for a lot of folks switching to Disqus. We were waiting for the feature for our blog, and switched within days of its release. I don't think many serious bloggers are willing to put their community history into the hands of someone without knowing they'll be able to get them back out. So, I don't think this can be viewed as a bad thing, no matter how things shake out--that's just a big batch of users that would have never been Disqus users, if the feature didn't exist. And Disqus does have the pretty clear market lead...but they will need to keep innovating rapidly to keep growing that lead, particularly in the interim as ID lives in "private beta" while the WordPress folks do whatever it is they're doing with it.
- sidsavara 18y ago
  I agree, I am not saying that it was a bad move. I'm saying that it's unfortunate timing for them that a lot of the people who dipped their toes in specifically because they didn't have to commit to Disqus may very well jump ship now. Basically, they gave their users an option to leave if something better came along. If ID integrates with WP.com and everybody ends up having an ID account, that would probably be the "something better" that would push people over to ID.

SwellJoe 18y ago

The bad news for Disqus is the just added a feature to their plugin so that comments are now stored both locally as well as on disqus.com This "bad news" was reponsible for a lot of folks switching to Disqus. We were waiting for the feature for our blog, and switched within days of its release. I don't think many serious bloggers are willing to put their community history into the hands of someone without knowing they'll be able to get them back out. So, I don't think this can be viewed as a bad thing, no matter how things shake out--that's just a big batch of users that would have never been Disqus users, if the feature didn't exist. And Disqus does have the pretty clear market lead...but they will need to keep innovating rapidly to keep growing that lead, particularly in the interim as ID lives in "private beta" while the WordPress folks do whatever it is they're doing with it.

sidsavara 18y ago
I agree, I am not saying that it was a bad move. I'm saying that it's unfortunate timing for them that a lot of the people who dipped their toes in specifically because they didn't have to commit to Disqus may very well jump ship now. Basically, they gave their users an option to leave if something better came along. If ID integrates with WP.com and everybody ends up having an ID account, that would probably be the "something better" that would push people over to ID.