discuss disqus

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On Wednesday, 30 July 2014 at 17:23:19 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> So why do you think disqus is bad? I've seen some rationale 
> from others but quite honestly it doesn't seem very convincing. 
> -- Andrei

Convincing you is quite an achievement. I don't think I have 
managed to do this even once ;)

I have several distinct concerns about it:

1)

It is ugly and visually alien. iframe nature is too obvious 
because "it's not currently possible to apply custom CSS to the 
Disqus iFrame" (c) 
https://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/545277-disqus-appearance-tweaks

This looks especially bad on flat static pages like dlang.org 
documentation.

2)

Quality of content. Either we don't require moderation and will 
inevitably get some confusing / misleading / wrong 
recommendations or do require it and it will be the same as with 
pull request - reviewer bottleneck. Former is more damaging than 
"do nothing", latter does not make any real difference.

3)

Dog-fooding. It is completely out of the line with existing 
documentation and development ecosystem I'd like to see 
popularized among newcomers. We already have quick GitHub 
"improve this page" links - a lot of possibilities remain for 
integration with wiki.dlang.org and forum.dlang.org

Adding disqus will harm those existing (and good) information 
sources for same reason why adding quick and dirty hack harm 
application long-term maintenance. And the fact that you don't 
own comment database makes it harder to later switch to own 
comment system once vibe.d based implementation is ready.