Disqus - is it catching on ?

[Anpanman]

I'm noticing a lot of Wordpress sites using Diqus to help drive traffic but my concern would be the separate login issue. Is anyone using Wordpress with Disqus as their front end and Xenforo for forums? If so, how is having separate logins for Wordpress and Xenforo working out?

 

[Digital Doctor]

I'm noticing a lot of Wordpress sites using Diqus to help drive traffic but my concern would be the separate login issue. Is anyone using Wordpress with Disqus as their front end and Xenforo for forums? If so, how is having separate logins for Wordpress and Xenforo working out?

TheBig K did - http://xenforo.com/community/threads/crazyengineers-forum-migrates-to-xenforo.24124/

 

[Slavik]

I'm noticing a lot of Wordpress sites using Diqus to help drive traffic but my concern would be the separate login issue. Is anyone using Wordpress with Disqus as their front end and Xenforo for forums? If so, how is having separate logins for Wordpress and Xenforo working out?

Honestly, since hearing of discuss nearly a year ago, I have yet to wander onto a site using it...

 

[=MGN=RedEagle]

You've answered your own question.

Yes. More people are using it. It's becoming more popular. It is catching on.

I've used it from an end user perspective a few years ago. I found it pretty ghastly.

Never used it from an admin side of things, but obviously people must see some benefit to it as it is becoming quite widely adopted. I've probably seen an equal number of people adopting Facebook comments, though.

I think Facebook comments will kill Disqus, if it has not already.

 

[Digital Doctor]

I think Facebook comments will kill Disqus, if it has not already.

How long has Facebook comments been around ? I think it's been a few years. Disqus has been growing since then.
I've noticed alot of NEWS sites use Disqus.

 

[=MGN=RedEagle]

I think if we had the stats Facebook comments would be like 10-20 times Disqus.

 

[Digital Doctor]

Two Disqus sites I just saw.

http://www.quepublishing.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2130753
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/10/05/robert-fulford-slaves-to-the-base/

 

[=MGN=RedEagle]

Well we really need stats though. I bet you Facebook comments is huge.

 

[Digital Doctor]

Yeah, it's probably not worth the hassle. We've tried both of the available Wordpress/Xenforo bridges available here and there are some serious disadvantages with both. I think we're just going to use Disqus directly for the Wordpress comments and forget about bridging. Disqus is fantastic for driving traffic, which offsets the downside of having separate logins for the forum.

 

[Digital Doctor]

I didn't know Disqus was around in 2008.

 

[Digital Doctor]

Guess what the Yellow line is ?

 

[Digital Doctor]

I saw a Disqus competitor.
http://viafoura.com/
site that uses it: http://www.thestar.com/

Anyone have any experience with it ?
Seems "VERY" similar to Disqus.

 

[Carlos]

I tried disqus for one of my Call of Duty sites for a year, and I gotta say, it doesn't inspire responses.

 

[Slavik]

I didn't know Disqus was around in 2008.

I imagine that's due to people typoing a popular tropical fish

 

[Wildcat Media]

We're using Disqus on a blog that will launch in a week or two. Main reason I went with it is because we'll have a staff of four of us monitoring all comments (which will be moderated) and their admin panel for approving or weeding out posts beats the poor comments handling native to WordPress. That and it offers features such as IP or email blacklisting and whitelisting, and we can even offer guest commenting so visitors can still use Disqus but need not have to sign up to make a comment.

The only other viable option was IntenseDebate, but I had issues trying to sign up for it (took me three tries).

I will never ever force anyone to sign up to facebook in order to post comments. I despise that company and its operations on multiple levels, and dislike their "walled fortress" way of doing things. It is just a lazy, cheap way out IMHO, and it offers no way to assign a staff to moderate comments. Yeah, some think it's "cool", but they are limiting comments to only one social media network, which is only a subset of users on the entire Internet.

 

[OSS 117]

I imagine that's due to people typoing a popular tropical fish

No, that's discus. I used Disqus back in 2008-2011 as a discussion plugin that overrode WordPress's capabilities. I briefly used it in 2012 as well.

 

[eberkund]

I use Disqus on my blog (no forum) and I really like it. It is much better than the default commenting form and all the different login options make it easy for people to participate.

Never had any issues with it.