Mar 29 2008
Bye bye, Disqus
You can’t say I didn’t try.
I’ve been using Disqus as a replacement for the regular comment system on this blog for a couple of weeks. Today I decided to pull the plug.
There are two major things that bother me about the service.
First, and foremost, they can’t get the Display Name thing right. I had a cheesy login name, timbo12, and that’s what was showing up on people’s blogs (including my own) when I commented on stuff. I didn’t want that. And while Disqus offers the option to change your display name – which I promptly did, to Tim Burden – it misleadingly doesn’t change your display name on the comments. it only changes the display name on your Disqus profile page, which I couldn’t care less about.
So I emailed one of the developers, Jason Ha, who told me they were working on a new Wordpress plugin that would fix that problem. To me, that just makes the problem worse, since I’ll be Tim Burden on blogs that have updated their plugins, and timbo12 on blogs that have not.
My second major concern: it wipes out your trackbacks, which to me is an important part of bloggery. I want to know, and I want others to know, who has mentioned my blog posts in their blog posts.
Plus I’m not really seeing the added value. I’ve not really had a problem with people trying to impersonate me on blog comments. And hey, if they do, and they link back to my blog – more links for me!
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Thanks, Jitendra