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What’s the benefit of 3rd party commenting services?

Started by Andrew Rickmann · 8 months ago

This week Automattic have acquired Intensedebate, and Disqus have announced the release of their public API. This has got me thinking.
I’ve previously felt that these 3rd party bolt-ons are of little real value to the blogging world, and for self-hosted blogs I still fell there is ... Continue reading »

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  • I would never use a third-party comment thing. Mainly because of the reason you stated -- they don't offer anything that can not be accomplished locally.

    I also consider comments a personal matter and the privacy issues that arise because of every comment going through a 3rd-party service might put off some of the readers (although most of them are probably unaware of that fact).
  • Privacy is a good point Kaspars, you would effectively be re-publishing someone elses content on another website so you would have to be explicit about that.

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