discuss disqus

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 29 July 2014 at 21:47:16 UTC, 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?

I really don't like the idea of having comments on the 
documentation - especially unmoderated comments. If the 
documentation itself isn't good enough, then either it needs to 
be improved, or we need associated articles or tutorials to 
expand on it. Maybe what we need is a way to make it easier for 
newcomers to indicate where the documentation is failing for them 
so that we know what we need to improve about it. But allowing 
random comments will just clutter it and wouldn't be official or 
authoritative in the least (possibly even giving outright wrong 
information - and it would be alongside the official docs for 
everyone to see). Much as some of the comments might be 
enlightening, I think that the risk is high enough that we should 
find a different way to tackle the problem.

- Jonathan M Davis