This will be short and to the point. This is in response to a user request. Given that a native commenting addin is not yet available, I do want to make sure that there is some sort of commenting solution for the time being.

Note: This is based on a very early pre-release of the disqus addin for Ode.

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Introduction

Disqus is a popular 3rd party commenting system with a lot of bells and whistles. To learn more, you'll want to visit their site. In fact you must visit the site and set up an account.

Disqus has a lot of features including (among others):

• Notifications,
• Media embedding,
• Integration with Facebook, Twitter, and other social sites

One of the big advantages of using Disqus is that it allows you to require that users authenticate to comment, without requiring that you manage authentications, or ask users to set up an account on your site.

Visitors can authenticate through Disqus using: a Disqus account, Twitter, Yahoo, and OpenId.

(There's also an option to allow visitors to post as guests using only a name and an email address.)

Should you use Disqus for comments?

At the moment a 3rd party commenting service is your only option with Ode. So if you want to enable comments right now, it's either Disqus or something else like it. What if the native comment solution were available and it did everything you need, should you use Disqus then?

I'd say it depends on how you think of comments.

If you consider comments an integral part of your site then you might prefer to have native comments saved locally along with the rest of your site content.

On the other hand, if you consider comments a nice extra, but not necessarily part of the content of your site, then a hosted service might be better for you.

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