discuss disqus

[w0rp via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 30 July 2014 at 03:43:55 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 7/29/2014 2:47 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> There's a pretty negative article about disqus making the 
>> rounds:
>>
>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2c19of/your_users_deserve_better_than_disqus/
>>
>>
>> Since we're considering adding disqus flow to our docs, we 
>> better think this
>> well. Any thoughts?
>
> The bit about Disqus tracking users bothers me. I know that's 
> what one gets with "free", but I'd prefer our own system like 
> Vladimir's awesome forum software.

This is sadly the norm now. Virtually all services and software 
are offered gratis and the company makes money by gathering 
information on users. That's pretty much the motivation behind 
everything Google does these days. I'll stop there before I start 
to sound "tinfoil hat."

We could try a number of things with the site I'm building. 
There's the option of writing a new comment system. Supposing we 
can set up an RDBMS, that wouldn't be a whole lot of work to do. 
I'll admit it would a lot easier to write if vibe.d had an ORM 
which generated all of the required SQL. (Generating ALTER TABLE 
statements for changes to models being a definite plus.) Still, 
rolling a few CREATE TABLE statements manually for it wouldn't 
kill me if I was to write it.

Perhaps there's some kind of integration with a more agreeable 
service that exists. I'm not quite sure how Vladimir's forum 
software might tie into it. I don't know much about the forum 
software, apart from using it and having a very high level 
understanding of what it does.