From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kyle Sexton Subject: Re: Usage of disqus instead of mailinglist considered harmful Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:21:03 -0500 Message-ID: References: <878vi9l3fx.fsf@gnu.org> <87k41r7uuk.fsf@gnu.org> <2012-04-08T13-22-34@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51183) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SJrU3-0002dN-Ae for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:21:08 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SJrU1-0003G6-8n for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:21:06 -0400 Received: from new1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.221]:58951) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SJrU0-0003Fk-T8 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:21:05 -0400 Received: from compute5.internal (compute5.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.45]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12E933A3 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:21:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (unknown [12.25.151.59]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 98BFC8E00AF for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:21:01 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Brian van den Broek's message of "Sun, 8 Apr 2012 18:33:59 +0200") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Brian van den Broek writes: > On 8 Apr 2012 13:44, "Karl Voit" > > > >> Oh I'd like to warn here: disqus is a private commercial company >> that wants to make money. >> >> Their strategy can (and will) change from one day to the other. > > An enthusiastic +1 from this largely lurking list member. > Some other options could be: - Roll our own commenting system (a quick github search found https://github.com/phusion/juvia) - Setup automatic backups of comments using the disqus API, http://docs.disqus.com/developers/export/ I can search around and setup a commenting engine server and try to integrate it into worg like disqus, but unless it's an official server it's not much better. If random server someone sets up suddenly disappears it's the same as disqus changing their business model. I guess maybe a server with automatic comment exporting to git or something? Or org-maintainer admin access to server? Both? -- Kyle Sexton