It amazes me that people who profess to be interested in conversation, in thoughts and in communities of ideas still use Disqus to host the comments on their sites. Did no-one learn the lessons of a decade ago, when we did this before?
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I moved to disqus when I rebuilt my blog last year, because of chronic spam problems on a self hosted system, leading to massive database bloating (even though aksimet did a good job of filtering, the database still filled up with 1000’s of spam comments. Disqus works really well, and has been painless. However, you have a valid point – outsourced comment systems can go away, so maybe I ought to consider scraping them from time to time so I have a an archive!