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BoingBoing.net is using it as such: Comments for an article (http://boingboing.net/2013/11/28/giant-cat-sofa.html http://boingboing.net/2013/11/28/giant-cat-sof

by cstuder 13y ago

BoingBoing.net is using it as such: Comments for an article (http://boingboing.net/2013/11/28/giant-cat-sofa.html http://boingboing.net/2013/11/28/giant-cat-sofa.html) are automatically a thread on the forum (http://bbs.boingboing.net/t/giant-cat-sofa/15233 http://bbs.boingboing.net/t/giant-cat-sofa/15233) Not yet very much integrated, but that shouldn't be a problem given the REST API of Discourse.

buro9 13y ago
Don't most people who use Disqus just use the JavaScript to embed it? At the pure tech level it's not equivalent. One required the ability to cut and paste and be done in a few moments, the other requires you to implement your own interface against the REST interface. For a drop-in replacement, although not open source, I think moot.it looks pretty good: https://moot.it/ https://moot.it/ They're aiming at the embeddable market for comments and forums and have a pretty nice product. Discourse is of course good on the open source side, but unless someone can point me at a JavaScript tool to allow embedding as simply as Disqus or Moot.it I think it's not the best match for this scenario. As always... what's the full use-case? What are they trying to achieve? What are the priorities guiding the decision making process? Discourse wins if the important criteria here is open source and the person asking the question is fine implementing the integration using the REST API. Moot.it wins if you just want a drop-in replacement and that trumps the open source. Writing your own wins if you want a project that will take far longer than you anticipate :)
- sams99 13y ago
  Sam here from Discourse, I use Discourse to drive commenting on my blog and I love it, ever since I did it comment quality has gone way up. eg: http://samsaffron.com/archive/2013/11/22/demystifying-the-ruby-gc#comments http://samsaffron.com/archive/2013/11/22/demystifying-the-ru... , one could build a plugin that gives parity with disqus, its just a space we have not really decided to enter
  - buro9 13y ago
    Neat, and a question relating to quality... do you mean reduction in spam? Or that the length of the comment and insight/wit/whatever increased?
    - sams99 13y ago
      Spam has completely vanished, got 0 in a month. Quality and length of comments has gone way up. Turns out that the extra click required and registration weeds out a lot of the problem comments. I also find that giving people space, proper preview and excellent followup makes a world of difference (Discourse has reply by email, notifications and so on) Originally I was considering adding a traditional, add anon comment box, but I am not really that motivated to do so.
      - buro9 13y ago
        That's really good info, thanks.
- infocollector 13y ago
  moo.it looks good. Seems like their privacy policies are nice, and they don't sell out their users. How do they earn money?
  - JLehtinen 13y ago
    Check https://moot.it/upgrade https://moot.it/upgrade — we currently offer 2 paid upgrades, Branding and SSO. — Janne/Moot
- pvorb 13y ago
  Moot isn't Open Source and cannot be installed locally. Although it looks like a nice alternative for Disqus, it doesn't meet my requirements.

by cstuder 13y ago

buro9 13y ago

Don't most people who use Disqus just use the JavaScript to embed it? At the pure tech level it's not equivalent. One required the ability to cut and paste and be done in a few moments, the other requires you to implement your own interface against the REST interface. For a drop-in replacement, although not open source, I think moot.it looks pretty good: https://moot.it/ https://moot.it/ They're aiming at the embeddable market for comments and forums and have a pretty nice product. Discourse is of course good on the open source side, but unless someone can point me at a JavaScript tool to allow embedding as simply as Disqus or Moot.it I think it's not the best match for this scenario. As always... what's the full use-case? What are they trying to achieve? What are the priorities guiding the decision making process? Discourse wins if the important criteria here is open source and the person asking the question is fine implementing the integration using the REST API. Moot.it wins if you just want a drop-in replacement and that trumps the open source. Writing your own wins if you want a project that will take far longer than you anticipate :)

sams99 13y ago
Sam here from Discourse, I use Discourse to drive commenting on my blog and I love it, ever since I did it comment quality has gone way up. eg: http://samsaffron.com/archive/2013/11/22/demystifying-the-ruby-gc#comments http://samsaffron.com/archive/2013/11/22/demystifying-the-ru... , one could build a plugin that gives parity with disqus, its just a space we have not really decided to enter
- buro9 13y ago
  Neat, and a question relating to quality... do you mean reduction in spam? Or that the length of the comment and insight/wit/whatever increased?
  - sams99 13y ago
    Spam has completely vanished, got 0 in a month. Quality and length of comments has gone way up. Turns out that the extra click required and registration weeds out a lot of the problem comments. I also find that giving people space, proper preview and excellent followup makes a world of difference (Discourse has reply by email, notifications and so on) Originally I was considering adding a traditional, add anon comment box, but I am not really that motivated to do so.
    - buro9 13y ago
      That's really good info, thanks.
infocollector 13y ago
moo.it looks good. Seems like their privacy policies are nice, and they don't sell out their users. How do they earn money?
- JLehtinen 13y ago
  Check https://moot.it/upgrade https://moot.it/upgrade — we currently offer 2 paid upgrades, Branding and SSO. — Janne/Moot
pvorb 13y ago
Moot isn't Open Source and cannot be installed locally. Although it looks like a nice alternative for Disqus, it doesn't meet my requirements.