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Why is Disqus a thriving though flawed comment platform and Livefyre a seemingly dead and flawed comment platform? I don't bother commenting on sites with Live

• minimaxir 13y ago
  It should be noted that LiveFyre has a "SocialSync" feature which syndicates comments from the owner's Facebook page, which may inflate the comment count. It is a terrible feature.
• bentlegen 13y ago
  How's it flawed? (Disclosure: I work for Disqus and I'm genuinely curious.)
  • jerrya 13y ago
    It seems to scale well and it provides a world wide commenting service -- in that sense it's an enormous success. But from site to site the UI changes, even within a site. Wired often has articles where the various disqus links back to the article is broken. You seem to want to be a social player with follow, etc., but I've only every seen one person with a follower. I will get notifications of a response, but no response can be found, the link to the response goes nowhere (or the browser "cannot" find it to position itself properly.) The load times are becoming terrible and noticeably slow down page load as I watch the disqus icon spin around. You in some sense violated privacy when you without telling people started enumerating was upvoting. Often on Chrome, however you inject comments is such that the Chrome find command, c-F, cannot find the comments. It's hands down one of the better commenting systems out there, but in many ways it's flawed -- that's okay, gives you room to improve. What I find interesting is that Livefyre seems in some sense to be a clone but whatever choices they made make it seem like commenting is a waste of time. HTH!