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This is a huge advantage. I want to be a disqus user, not a user of 4000 tiny blogs. When I make comments on x, y and z random blogs, I want to be able to follo
by bonaldi 14y ago
This is a huge advantage. I want to be a disqus user, not a user of 4000 tiny blogs. When I make comments on x, y and z random blogs, I want to be able to follow replies to them in one central place.
I especially don't want to give a username and password to all these little poorly-secured blogs.
If you want to "control" "your" users, build your own comments system. And turn off RSS.
- simonbrown 14y ago> I especially don't want to give a username and password to all these little poorly-secured blogs. How many blogs require you to create a blog to post? > And turn off RSS. What's wrong with RSS?
- bonaldi 14y agoNearly all blogs require you to authenticate with some kind of account. The alternative is spam city. RSS: There's nothing wrong with it. But if you object to Disqus centralising "your" users, you should equally object to eg Google Reader centralising them. It's exactly the same principle. You lose "control", to the benefit of the user.
- cema 14y agoI want to be a disqus user, not a user of 4000 tiny blogs. Yes! And in addition to the above arguments, I would say, having a single identity across a variety of sites may be convenient.