discuss disqus

[Jonathan M Davis 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.

Yeah, that seems outright creepy and very invasive. I think that 
even if we were to decide that we wanted a documentation comment 
system and we wanted it to have the feature set that Disqus does, 
we should either find another, existing system which has those 
features but not the tracking, or we should roll our own. And I 
don't think that rolling our own would be that hard. Some aspects 
of it wouldn't be all that different from what the forum software 
already does, and we already have some great tools for web stuff 
like vibe.d.

- Jonathan M Davis