After 15 years or so of relatively plain sailing, comment platform Disqus is cracking down on sites that violate its terms of service. Pirate manga and anime sites have received notifications that Disqus will no longer provide services after copyright infringement came to its attention. With evictions now spreading to sites including FitGirl Repacks and KickassAnime, it’s a race against the clock to export years of chat in the 24/48 hours notice given.
That seems like a perfect use case for https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/30018034
Note that if your site is running on wordpress, you can just make your site a threadiverse community, and therefore people would be able to comment from either your site directly, or by using lemmy/piefed/kbin.
Thank you for all you’ve done for the community!
People have warned about this risk since disqus started getting popular. Based on my experience, no matter how nice you try to be about it, people choosing this kind of solution can give zero fucks about this, and consider that immediate convenience trumps everything. So, cheh.
I never saw the point of having a comments section to some of these places.
Are you kidding me?
The amount of times I’ve helped and have been helped by people in the comments is not insignificant to be just ignored.
Especially websites like FitGirl, where you can help people fix issues with games, help them install patches and updates, and install mods on the cracked games.
