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Yes, these and other down sides:

Disqus is proprietary software.
Disqus terms of service definitely spook off open source contributors who
tend to have a higher concern around data sharing, ads. [1]
Disqus automatically changed settings last year to monetization settings
which I had to manually change for each site ID.
Disqus RSS feed is no longer available without a login.

I do have implementation requests for the replacement.
- Can you embed code snippets?
- Does it provide spam/robot protection?
- Can we "bulk close" or expire threads that are opened at a specific point
in time? For example, closing all moderation and asking on the Diablo or
Folsom releases.
- Can we have RSS notification, text notification, email notifications when
a new thread is started, when one gets a reply, for an entire book?
- Can notifications be controlled by group or by individual users only?
- Will the mobile user experience be supported?
- Can we have analytics reports available on which pages are generating the
most questions, hotly debated, what time of day do they occur, how long
does it take for someone to respond?
- Will we be able to moderate the threads by closing down a thread or
deleting a reply completely?

Very eager to replace Disqus, but need to determine minimum viable system
replacement as well. There's no topic for this at the Summit, but we could
fit it in as needed if you're there, Evgeny, just let us know.
Thanks!
Anne


1. http://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/466260-terms-of-service


On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:30 AM, David Cramer
<david.cramer at rackspace.com>wrote:

> On 10/31/2013 11:18 AM, Stefano Maffulli wrote:
> > On 10/30/2013 08:00 PM, Lorin Hochstein wrote:
> >> Are you suggesting that the Ask widget replace the existing Disqus
> >> comments on the docs page as a mechanism for users to ask questions,
> >> or would this be an addition?
> >
> > It would be a substitution: Disqus goes out, Ask widget comes in. Last
> > time I checked I have got the impression that nobody really loved Disqus.
> >
> > Any other thougths?
>
> I'd say Disqus's strengths are
> 1) Spam suppression. At Rackspace we get almost no spam through Disqus.
> 2) Most users have alredy signed in to Disqus somewhere along the way,
> so the barrier to comment is low.
> 3) Easy to set up.
>
> On the down side:
> 1) Markup in comments sometimes munged.
> 2) Not possible to migrate comments in some situations
>
> Moving to ask.openstack.org would require users to be logged in to make
> comments, but would also consolidate your community at ask.
>
> Regards,
> David
>
>
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