Comments on: Why Disqus sucks

By: E

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:10:27 +0000

Thanks guys. I’ve been looking to replace the std. WP comments with something more elaborate. On first glance, Disqus seemed a good fit, reading into their documentation I became less convinced and decided to look for feedback from users. What I read here pretty much persuaded me to look for some alternative…

By: Ted

Ted — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:18:23 +0000

Here’s my Discus / Fox News issue: Just read some stupid story on Fox where the commenters almost to a person have their heads up their rear ends. So I figured I’d make my point, make fun of them, and change the world, all with one pithy commenbt. But no. As soon as I log into Discus, the comments on the story completely disappear. It’s as though there were never any comments on this story. No link at the bottom, nothing! All the other links are still there, but the “comments” one? Gone. As though it never existed.
Hitting the back button on the browser doesn’t help. It’s enough to make a fellow paranoid: Has Fox had enough of me mocking their followers and I’m locked out as soon as I log in, or does Discus just really suck? Or both?

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:47:46 +0000

My biggest complaint is that the blog seems to update at random. Especially the foxnews comments. I can read 10 comments, then hit ‘load more comments’ and bam, the same 10 comments show up underneath along with replies that aren’t tied to the OP or even on the same page. It’s an awful setup.

By: Athens Walker

Athens Walker — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:07:21 +0000

I hate it more than spam and pop-ads combined!
I have no way of deleting a profile I have created (or login choice I made ?) some time ago and every time I forget myself and comment on a DISQUS conversation it grabs the profile choice I made back then and inserts it without giving me the chance to approve or to delete later on.
I have made a pledge to never comment on a DISQUS conversation again!

By: Manish

Manish — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:13:46 +0000

The only issue with disqus which I found was comments are hosted by disqus. You don’t access them from your database. You always have to depend on them. I don’t know why mashable use disqus, they can implement all login on their on. After alot of RnD I am using only facebook comments. Although they are also stored in facebook server but there is no ques on facebook reliability.

By: andy

andy — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 03:16:00 +0000

what i don’t like about disqus is: the page loads very slow and sometimes the comments disappear in thin air not recommended..

By: J Elliott

J Elliott — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 03:58:19 +0000

I have an AOL and Yahoo email account and yet neither is honored by Disqus. I refuse to start a new account to be able to communicate through Disqus. What is the deal here? Kickbacks from the sponsered accounts?

By: David

David — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 16:56:36 +0000

For a number of sites where I post comments, and they happen to be through Disqus, I am finding that many comments are not posted on the sites. I have contacted two sites and they can't determine what the problem is. I have contacted Disqus and I am awaiting a response. My suspicion is that it is Disqus that is dropping my comments (funny, Disqus ups the count but the comment does not show up on the site or on my Disqus dashboard). I do link building for my website so it is pretty important for me to be able to post comments. And for all my effort to compose good comments, it is a disappointment to not see my comments show up.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 16:08:45 +0000

Disqus sucks!!! Hippie liberals run it so that if you leave a comment that disagrees with a liberal, you will be flagged out of existence. Meanwhile, I’ve seen liberals cursing and lying daily with no worries from disqus. Unless you’re running a democrat bolg, stay away from this San Francisco abortion of a company

By: Tennielle Law

Tennielle Law — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 13:17:04 +0000

The question still remains. How do I COMPLETELY delete my disqus account? Is my yahoo linked permanently to disqus? What a joke and a waste of time.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:25:34 +0000

I really dislike it, its taking over one of my favorite blogs. Im gonna have to stay away from it on what have read about it. So sanatized? And cant erase info like aol? and the show 1 reply for each reply makes me wanna punch my ipad. I dont wanna type more than i have to.. I liked 130 comments loading all on one page. Disqus! there aint anything being said really..

By: Tim J

Tim J — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 02:55:11 +0000

This is very disheartening. I’ve found Disqus to be virtually unusable in Opera. I hoped that creating a Disqus profile would enable me to comment on sites that use it, and it just about does, but nothing works properly. I can’t log in to comment, but if instead I post using the email address that belongs to my Disqus profile, then the comment gets attached to that regardless of whether I want it to or not.

It works in Firefox but still seems utterly crappy.

So far I’ve experienced it far more as an obstacle to commenting than as a comment system.

By: Mikeinreality

Mikeinreality — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:58:04 +0000

I agree, it is terrible, but mostly because it violates my privacy. I don’t want to give up so much information just to interact with the online world. I don’t like the log in choices and you have no choice to be anonymous. So basically, everyone is so conditioned to now giving up information that no one wants to give up that everyone forgot we consumers are king. Disqus wants me to register through a link and have a crappy profile, neither of these things I wish to do. Whenever, I see Disqus being used, I notice the comments are generally far less informative of a discussion than I wish to partake in, because you would have to be retarded to be willing to use it to begin with. Additionally, I like every other sane person, just stops viewing websites that use Disqus because its usage on a website speaks mountains to what that website owner thinks of me and how I relate to his/her, in other words, I am a cattle-based consumer that engages without thought and because I am told to do so. All of this is annoying, and they could go about it another way. It is clear that Disqus sells such information, and does data processing to generate profit, and they like many other datawarehouses have delusions of grandeur. Other people a part of the stake in selling all my information, and maybe I will express an interest. I probably won’t but do require me to use such bullshit to write on a site. I mean, most blogs and websites lack the content of a real newspaper and Disqus takes away the one thing that most people engage in the internet for to begin with, an qualitative interaction that leads to more meaningful understanding than just a simple article they could passively read. It’s like, websites think they have figure us out but they haven’t. There is still much to be learned, and they shouldn’t try to bite the hand that feeds them, because people want options and options to opt out. Disqus thinks we only want an online popularity contest to see who has the most positive checks next to their name. We are not 16 and such an application should be reserved for Tiger magazine and Teen Beat’s blog, ok maybe TMZ too but leave the adults alone. BTW, great idea to discuss this point because I have long thought this and I am happy to know others also hate it as much, which I basically thought but needed confirming.

By: Matt Warren

Matt Warren — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:19:44 +0000

Thanks so much for this article. I went hunting for resolving problems with Disqus and this post (much to the annoyance of the Disqus folks, I’m sure) was near the top. I have been having persistent problems with my email subscribers being unable to post to the disqus comments. Additionally, it doesn’t play nice (formatting-wise) with a number of WordPress themes.

Until they improve their product substantially, I’m out. I just wanted you to know how this post figured prominently in that equation.

By: raid recovery

raid recovery — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:55:16 +0000

Well they already own the IntenseDebate system so who knows? Though I think DISQUS may have something to say about it