For the past few years Liliputing’s comment system has been powered by a WpDiscuz, a plugin that takes the native WordPress comment system and supercharges it with additional features. But one of those features seems to be at least a little controversial: voting. So I figured I’d ask the community what you think: should we […]
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Disqus discloses 2012 security breach
If you have a Disqus account, you might want to change your password. The online commenting platform (which powered this site’s comments up until this earlier year), announced that it suffered a security breach in 2012 and that data for about 17.5 million users was compromised. While the breach happened 5 years ago, Disqus just […]
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Say hello to Liliputing’s new commenting system
For the past 9 years, Liliputing’s comment system has been powered by Disqus. Today I’m trying something different. As I mentioned in January, Disqus recently announced that websites using the company’s commenting tools had a choice: display advertising in the comment section or pay for a subscription. The subscription fee is reasonably low and I […]
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Do you prefer Disqus comments or WordPress/Jetpack comments?
This one’s for all the regular (or occasional) Liliputing commenters. This site has used the Disqus comment system since we first launched in April, 2008. At the time, Disqus offered clear benefits over the default WordPress comment system, including support for threaded comments, upvotes, spam detection (which clearly doesn’t always work), comment moderation tools. At […]