Vi bytte bort Disqus för ungefär 2 månader sedan. Många av er notice denna förändring och bad oss att skriva en Disqus review som förklarar varför vi bytte. Efter att ha använt Disqus i ungefär ett år noterade vi flera nackdelar som tvingade oss att byta tillbaka till WordPress comments. I denna Disqus review kommer vi att belysa skälen till varför vi bytte och hur det hjälpte till att öka våra comments med 304%.
Vi började använda Disqus i april 2014. Vi bytte bort för flera månader sedan. Vi uppskattar verkligen ert tålamod och ber om ursäkt för att det tog så lång tid att skriva om detta. Vi vet att flera av er har frågat om varför vi bytte bort Disqus, så här kommer vår slutliga Disqus review.
Varför bytte vi bort från Disqus?
Det fanns flera anledningar till att vi bytte bort Disqus.
Infogande av affiliate links utan behörighet
Disqus erbjuder publicerare möjlighet att tjäna lite extra $ $ om du aktiverar Promoted Discovery som visar sponsrade stories i avsnittet relaterade inlägg som Disqus kan lägga till.
Eftersom vi inte ville ha någon reklam från dem hade vi alla inställningar avmarkerade.
Men vi råkade av misstag springa in i vad de anropade en ”bugg” där Disqus infogade affiliate links i våra blogginläggs content utan vår behörighet.
I grund och botten har Disqus ett partnerskap med Viglink som tittar igenom ditt content och ändrar alla länkar som de samarbetar med till en affiliate-länk.
Vi fångade detta när vi noterade att Viglink hänvisade försäljning till OptinMonster från vår site WPBeginner. Hur ironiskt eftersom båda är våra webbplatser. Hmmm.
Efter att ha undersökt det rapporterade vi problemet till Disqus som de fixade och anropade det som en ”bugg”.
Vi var ganska besvikna över hur detta hanterades. Vi är eller ej säkra på hur mycket pengar Disqus tjänade på denna affiliate-injektionsbugg och hur utbrett detta var. Det fanns inget offentligt tillkännagivande om detta, och vi fick definitivt inte någon $$-kredit för reklam som de placerade på vår site för vem vet hur länge.
Det lämnade bara en dålig smak i munnen.
För mer detaljer om buggen kan du se vårt videoklipp här.
Sponsrade kommentarer
Vi fick reda på detta genom vår vän Michael Hyatt när han noterade att sponsrade comments dök upp på hans site utan hans behörighet.
Han rapporterade att du inte kan tacka nej utan hjälp från Disqus Support team.
Så vi kontaktade Disqus för att få en officiell response angående denna issue.
De bekräftade att det inte fanns något enkelt sätt för en enskild att tacka nej utan att kontakta deras support team. Eftersom det fanns specifika kriterier för Sponsrade Comments kommer de flesta användare ej att påverkas av detta.
Jättebra! Som om det inte redan var svårt nog att bekämpa skräppost i form av kommentarer, måste vi nu hålla ett öga på Disqus och snabbt kontakta dem om de aktiverar sponsrade kommentarer på vår site. No thanks.
Matt Mullenweg, grundare av WordPress sammanfattar det bäst i sin response till Disqus tillkännagivande: ”Det är ej skräppost om vi får betalt för det!”
Note: Under detta fiasko med sponsrade comments upptäckte vi en inställning som är automatiskt aktiverad för cookie tracking. Den är location i ”Advanced” settings tabs. Se till att du inaktiverar den om du använder Disqus.
Betydande minskning av engagemanget i kommentarer
När vi aktiverade Disqus klagade några läsare på att Disqus gör det svårare för gästkommentarer. Eftersom Disqus användes i stor utsträckning på flera webbplatser högst upp i listan brydde vi oss inte så mycket om de klagomålen.
Övertid sjönk vårt engagemang för kommentarer avsevärt. Efter att ha inaktiverat Disqus såg vi att våra användare började lämna fler kommentarer. Sedan förändringen har vi noterat att våra comments ökat med 304%.
Gränssnitt för moderation
Vi var ganska glada över det new gränssnittet för moderation när vi bytte, men när vi använde det mer var det inte något som våra editors gillade.
Note: Detta är helt och hållet ett personligt alternativ, och vi vet att det finns andra användare som älskar Disqus-gränssnittet.
Vad kommer vi att sakna med Disqus?
Även om vi inte gillade några av Disqus affärsmetoder fanns det några saker som vi säkert kommer att sakna med plattformen.
Skalbarhet och webbplatsernas prestanda
Comments är mycket resource intensiva. Om du har många comments på ett post kommer det att ta lång tid att ladda.
Om många användare lämnar kommentarer kl samma tid, så kommer det också att påverka belastningen på din server. Fördelen med att använda ett tredjeparts kommentarssystem som Disqus var att du rakar den serverbelastningen från din och skickar den på deras sätt.
Även om din site blir attackerad av en illvillig användare, kommer det inte att påverka din server eftersom det måste gå igenom Disqus först. (Obs/observera: Detta är bara sant om du har inaktiverat Comment Sync).
Redundans
Det bästa med Disqus var att kommentarer lagrades på en tredjeparts database vilket är extremt användbart med redundans. Vi kommer definitivt att sakna detta.
För närvarande, om vi någonsin måste göra en fail-over, kommer vi helt enkelt att inaktivera comments tills våra huvudservrar är tillbaka. Även om det ej är valfritt är detta det enklaste alternativet vi har.
Vad händer härnäst?
För närvarande använder vi WordPress standardgränssnitt för comments. Tidigare har vi provat Disqus och Livefyre, men vi har gått tillbaka till WordPress comments eftersom det helt enkelt gillar det bästa övergripande alternativet som finns available.
Vi överväger definitivt att använda De:Comments, ett plugin för WordPress-kommentarer som vi tidigare har reviewat.
Det andra alternativet är att driva upp de nativa WordPress-kommentarerna med en rad andra funktionalitets-plugins som Prenumerera på kommentarer, Reply-To, Enkel kommentarredigering och eventuellt några fler.
Vi hoppas att denna review förklarade varför vi bytte bort från Disqus. Vi uppskattar verkligen ditt tålamod och vi ber om ursäkt för att det tog så lång tid att skriva om detta. Vi vet att flera av er har frågat om den här förändringen.
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Moinuddin Waheed
Thanks for letting me know that disqus has some these bad practices and techniques in their part.
I have used disqus for a longer time for my blog comments and never knew that these are the issues with it.
I will definitely consider other options for wordpress comments. For now switching to wordpress comments.
Thanks a ton.
Sam Am
Great article , I used to have disqus for more than 2 years and I was always wondering why you guys are not using it. these days I was digging deep on my site and found couple of affiliate links redirects that I have never installed or dealt with. I just found out that it is from disqus ”and I think you can disable them” but I decided to delete disqus all together since this is not acceptable doing something on my site with out my permission ”it was automatically turned on”
it time to say goodbye disques, and thanks for the great post.
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Frank Fajardo
I found your blog after doing a search on why Disqus would like to get quite a lot of permission from my Tweeter account, more than most apps that simply need my identity (email and name). Thanks for sharing. It makes me affirm my decision to not sign up.
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Vlado
Congratulation! Very good decision!
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Erving
Interesting. I was researching if going with Discus was the way for my website. Now I will think it thoroughly a bit more.
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Glad our experience could be helpful
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Kingju Pendalo
Thanks for you review, I was wondering about setting Disqus on my website. Looks like I’m not going to go this way.
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Glad our tutorial could help inform you
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Abhishek Dorik
Hey! Thanks for this, it’s a great read. I too was using disqus on one of my blogs and I totally agree with all the takes in this blog. Interesting!
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Muskie
What changes did you have to make to your theme to move away from Disqus. It is basically blocked in China and slows my whole website down so I think it has to go given how long I’ve lived in China.
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As our theme is a custom theme, we had to ensure we had a comments template but for most themes, there should be a comments template already.
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Muskie
I plan to upgrade to WordPress 5 and then update my theme. Disqus has been blocked for two years in China it has to go if you want anyone in China to leave a comment on your blog.
Mathukutty P. V.
You said you are using wordpress native comment, but this comment box is different than my native comment box. Also could not find subscribe option. Why this change? One visitor complained the comment box below comments is difficult to access, and hence box should be above comments.
Tim
Links to comments never, ever worked in Disqus. The software just plain sucks. Finding older comments is incredibly tedious.
Betsi
What comment plugin are you using now?
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Hi Betsi,
We are not using any comment plugin.
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Taylor
I ”Happened” across this article and am very glad I read it, along with numerous comments shared.
I do NOT ever recall doing a ”thing” with Disqus, and yet they had an account on me, linked to FB that was so old it had an email address I have not used in AGES, as in probably 7 yrs or. more? I shut it down tonight, but not sure that really means a thing. I never register anything with my FB account, ever! So this is interesting that they had it. Maybe somehow way back when I did, is all I can think of.
I am hoping closing the account is the same as also rejecting them of any rights to access any of my information, or to share such information in part or in whole. But I don’t know. (??) Anyone know?
When I go to make a comment in some sites, they ask for my email and they want you to click a box giving consent for them to have access to your whole life and your friends … These apps do NOT need my friend’s lists, contacts, location(s), phone number, place of work, my whole life…its none of their business, just so I can make a comment? So I close the window and move on, no comment made. Many of us move on. But in time I’m betting that will continue to change, which for me is alarming.
Privacy matters! I fear for the next few generations as they further and further remove them from any understanding of the value of privacy and their rights to it.
While I do have a Company website we have as of yet to place anything up that allows for ”commenting”. in our blog/article section because we work in Psychiatric care and Human Rights needs for marginalized populations that are heavily stigmatized, to begin with.
The last thing I want any of those we serve seeing is all the judgemental comments and crudeness that has already done enough damage to their healing process. So as a company in our field of work, we are torn on how to handle this and continue to debate what to do. We want people to have a voice and place to share their views appropriately, and give support to those who would gain from it, while educating the communities that are the foundation to the world we live in.
A rational conversation would be great! Reality has shown me that is nearly impossible. There is the ideal world, then there is a reality.
If there is a really good way to have comments done filtered from the spam and the hate, I’d love to know what it is. Yes, we do use Word Press but I don’t know it inside and out. I plan to explore plugins, etc. but frankly it seems to me that the time consumption of self-monitoring of comments would be extremely time-consuming.
Thank you for writing the article, it did lead me to more information. and awareness of some complexities and even some tools I was unaware of. If I had not crossed this article, I’d have not even known I was in their system! That’s scary. So thank you!
Khary
I recently removed the plug in after all my comments seem to have disappeared. Then i did an import and comments reappeared, but greyed out. In frustration in disabled the plug in and voila trouble free comments. Wouldnt ever use that program again.
Val
I was about to switch from Disqus to WP native comments, but then I realize that in order to have Akismet spam protection there, I have to pay $5/month for that. With Disqus spam protection is included free. And I have not had ad problems that I know of. Are you paying for Akismet or is there another option? Thank you
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Hi Val,
Akismet is free for personal blogs. During the signup you will be asked to choose a plan. Select name your own price plan and then you can set it to 0.
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Ed
I’m so glad you posted this. Unfortunately, I’m just now seeing it after having the worst experiences with them. One thing, I can tell you, that made me leave Disqus is the way they’ve made it really easy to block individual voices that don’t agree with the status quo. I posted a comment on NPR that they didn’t like, and they marked it spam. Next thing I know, after posting on another site, my comment got marked as spam again. That makes it sound like it’s just me being a troll or something, I know, but I’m not. I’m just not someone who’ll say whatever it is that people want to hear instead of a dissenting opinion. Now, every time I post a comment, I have to go through a process where I’m more likely to get marked as a spammer because of these past two instances. As a result, I don’t use Disqus to discuss anything–but they did leave me filled with disgust.
John S
I’ve read some sketchy stuff Disqus was doing before. As a Disqus contributor I was researching Disqus and came upon your experience with Disqus. I have to rethink myself using such a service that seems to do things a bit shady and underhanded. I don’t like Disqus because it tends to allow some really derogatory users who continue to berate other user comments without any ramifications. For me Disqus as sort of done a disservice to the web comment services by becoming more a negative then a positive way to exchange opinions and ideals.
John
Disqust wants to see my friends list and many other things in order to become their customer? Really? And it told me it found my secret account (everyone’s entitled to privacy) and asked me whether I wanted disqust to let everyone know about it and tie it up with my public profile? Seriously? Does Yelp have a buddy at Disqust? Cause Yelp is buddies with Twitter, which in turn allows Yelp president to freely spy on everyone’s comments at Twitter (no kidding). I find difficult to post even using the very Disqusting account. And I never allow them to connect with my Gmail, Facebook etc. accounts. Once Disqust blocked me from posting on Disqust and exposed to me that they knew everything about me and my posts. Nothing illegal on my side and who is Disqust, a Scotland Yard?
Jess Pacheco
This is some good insight. I actually came across this on my search for why my Disqus comments weren’t loading at the footer of my newest blog post. So, it seems like a lot of folks have encountered my issue with no solution.
Vincenzo
“When we enabled Disqus, few readers complained that Disqus makes it harder for guest commenting.” This is the main reason why I hate disquis.
Peter
This is a great article. Thank you for sharing. I was about to pay for Disqus but this has raised a red flag. Again, thank you.
Trina
I just stumbled upon this while I was just about to download the disqus plug in. I am glad I read it.
I have a few questions, at the moment I have a facebook plugin but my normal wordpress comment box is underneath. But I keep getting people trying to advertise in the wordpress comment box and it’s pretty annoying. I primarily work on facebook… would you suggest keeping the facebook plugin? I would like people to post from all platforms. Also, how do I moderate the comments?
Sorry for all the questions, I am relatively new to this. Many thanks
Ramin Faizy
Thanks for this great post i wanted to use disqus for my site but after this great post i will not use that thanks a lot