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Disqus is a great idea turned into hot garbage by (inevitable) lowest-level monetization. I once worked on a blog with Disqus. Whenever we had a hit, such as an
by Hard_Space 1y ago
Disqus is a great idea turned into hot garbage by (inevitable) lowest-level monetization. I once worked on a blog with Disqus. Whenever we had a hit, such as an HN front page, horrific ads would be injected into the comments section for that page. Any page without significant traffic had no ads, lulling you into a false sense of security. If a page 'hit' in your off-hours, the ghastly and repulsive ads could be running for a day, or even a weekend.
They could be turned off at the time but only on a case-by-case basis. In the end, I got rid of Disqus.
- f4uCL9dNSnQm 1y ago[dead]
- jaapz 1y agoWhen it was released there were no ads at all, and it was a great way of quickly adding comments to your site. Of course there is no thing as free lunch so the enshittification was inevitable
- chuckadams 1y agoDisqus was openly bragging about how many people they were tracking and data-mining from day 1.
- niutech 1y agoThere is a free lunch - see all those FOSS commenting systems.