Yesterday’s episode with Disqus had raised some serious questions in my head regarding allowing a third party to manage comments of my visitors. I issued a private apology to Daniel Ha for “jumping the gun” over the Google Analytics. I was wrong implying that Disqus was doing something shady. Many of the similar services use Google Analytics. So whenever a widget from Disqus is served on your blog, you might see in your status bar the url from Google Analytics blinking, even though you might not have Google Analytics code installed on your website. So don’t get spooked as I did yesterday, Disqus is not spying on you.

Yesterday’s episode however showed me that my decision to let Disqus manage my comments had some serious shortcomings.

By letting a third party manage the unique content of your blog, one very important thing happens. You no longer have the absolute and exclusive control of that content. If you are fine with it, you should probably look into services like Disqus- they do have some killer features that I will definitely miss.

I also would like apologize to every person who commented on my blog during the time Disqus managed the comments. Since I have turned the Disqus plugin off, it may appear that your comments are gone. But they are not, they just not on this blog. You still can find them on Disqus: http://sageblogger.disqus.com/ . The export/import feature on Disqus desires much improvement to successfully transfer all the comments back to this blog. I do not intend to close my account with Disqus, so your comments should be save there. I will be trying to move them to my blog, even if it means I need to do it manually.

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