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Yeah but comments will add load time and clutter to the page. Also I'll bet if this picks up any steam, the comments will devolve quickly without technically be

• rapind 14y ago
  Disqus loads in after page load, so it shouldn't add load time to the content. Also keep in mind that comments add SEO (and can be extremely valuable for this reason alone). Plus I don't think it's such a bad idea from a reader's perspective. Seems like the worse case scenario is that no one uses it, and the best case scenario people are able to contribute to improvements.
  • toast0 14y ago
    If the comments load in after the page loads, crawlers are unlikely to see them, so you're not getting much SEO benefit. Worst case is off-topic comments that take time to remove, significantly worse than nobody using it.
    • AlexMuir 14y ago
      Google definitely indexes disqus comments.
    • rapind 14y ago
      They actually have a deal with google where all of their comments are directly indexed and attributed to the sites (likely similar to canonical references). It used to be a problem a couple years ago, and sites would then use the API to load in comments and include them server-side. Obviously this wasn't ideal, but it's a solved problem now.