[ambirex]

Except that he is still using Disqus, which is free to use because they have moved to ad supported model (for the most part).

Even if he isn't running the ads, they are using the script to track users across sites and then feeding that into ad networks.

[mark_l_watson]

I noticed the use of Discus also. Handling comments is a pain. I converted my entire blog to Jekyll as static content a few years ago and used Jekyll with Discus, but after a few months decided to just keep using blogger.com for my blog since Discus itself was a little intrusive. I thought about doing without comments, but that seems like a bad idea.

[dbg31415]

An alternative to Disqus.

* Discourse || https://www.discourse.org/

* Embedding Discourse Comments via Javascript - howto - Discourse Meta || https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-discourse-comments-vi...

EDIT: Love the instant downvotes without any comments on why. Downvotes are totally helpful and not the least bit petty and stupid. I have 2 client using Discourse on their production sites and it works great.

[dustinmoris]

Didn't down vote you, but I very much dislike Discourse. It is sold to be a better forum/discussion system, but it feels very unpleasant to use. They tried to break things just for the sake of breaking. Like having an endless scroll instead of paging is driving me nuts. I hate endless scroll, this is the most anti pattern that exists on the web probably.

[dbg31415]

Hmm, so that's a good point.

They should have the option to turn it off, but they don't.

Endless scroll isn't good UX or SEO.

[newscracker]

"Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." [1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[dbg31415]

It's incredibly toxic behavior and should be mandated that people reply to a post before downvoting it.

"Hey, let's penalize that person for participating!"

[newscracker]

It depends on how things have shaped up over time. I have read before that pg is ok with the use of downvotes to indicate disagreement or annoyance without follow up comments. Here's that comment from nearly nine years ago: [1]

> pg 3246 days ago | on: PG on trolls

> I think it's ok to use the up and down arrows to express agreement. Obviously the uparrows aren't only for applauding politeness, so it seems reasonable that the downarrows aren't only for booing rudeness.

> It only becomes abuse when people resort to karma bombing: downvoting a lot of comments by one user without reading them in order to subtract maximum karma. Fortunately we now have several levels of software to protect against that.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171

[em3rgent0rdr]

seems like there needs to be one down arrow for simply disagreeing with the comment, and another clickable entity for flagging that comment as inapproproriate/impolite/notconstructive/toxic, etc.

[DanBC]

HN does have flags. You click the timestamp and the flag link shows up.

[icebraining]

Dunno why you were downvoted. I dislike Discourse, but it's open source, and even the hosted version has a business model not based on ads.