After two years of being a pro-Disqus user, I decided to switch back to WordPress Comments today.
I know, I know, I heavily promoted it some two years ago because it’s the best and convenient add-on you can put in your blog and website to encourage interaction between the readers and the blogger. It is indeed an easier way for blog readers to comment just by linking your social media handle (which most of us have, anyway). Once you login using your Disqus credentials, you’re automatically logged in to Disqus comment boxes, and all you need to do next is write the comment and submit.
But after two years and mishaps lately that I probably caused myself, I had to turn back. This may have happened because I edited this blog in real time and kept loading the page to see the changes. Maybe I overloaded my own server or something, idk. Comments weren’t showing in their respective posts and I’ve looked for a solution for days (URL Mapper being the #1 solution according to Google), and I still haven’t figured out how to fix that problem.
Going back was the easy way out.
I thought to myself: Why fix what isn’t broken, anyway? People who bloghop have autofill enabled on their browsers anyway, and typing details they would know by heart (since bloghop is a normal task to them already) shouldn’t be hard to do.
Three reasons why I switched back to WordPress Comments from Disqus
- Disqus slowed down my website
- Comments weren’t getting properly synced and disappeared completely in some posts (a reoccurring problem up to now, grr!)
- Re-syncing and re-installing broke it more and corrupted both my Disqus comments and local comments (causing WordPress to store duplicate comments)
Man, I’m going to miss it so much though! 😞 That convenience!
Now I have to go through 3k comments and manually delete duplicate comments Disqus imported to my blog. I have done about halfway from the list since I started this afternoon!
I should just delete all the comments and end my misery, hahaha, but as I was browsing these comments it brought me back to that time when my blog was still new. Sentimental value calling! These comments came from people who fell off the face of the earth (jk, I just don’t know where they are now because of the inactive URLs), people who were good buddies then, but completely drifted apart over the years and no longer friends with, some famous personalities (haha). Those were the good days when I was talkative here.
Oh yeah, Disqus left my locally-stored comments and threads with comments corrupted and fucked up because now the threads have missing comments and replies. Also inaccurate comment count and non-working comment links. Not that anyone will thoroughly browse the old posts and read the comments (I don’t think so) but if you come across comment threads with a weird flow of conversation, this is probably the reason for it. I believe this problem only happens in older posts.
If you dropped by my blog lately, you may have noticed it sort of has a new look. Well, not really, but now it’s cleaner and I can read everything better. I’m still in the process of fixing up the posts. Like, sorting them to proper tags and categories. But most likely here’s the finished product, hehe.
I’m happy with how it looks now. It encourages me to post more, tbh! I have a few drafts just waiting to be published, so watch out for that. 😊
Ang sipag mo just to go through all those comments!!! I have around 4k comments to delete din when I moved from blogger to wordpress (SUCH. A. PAIN.) and I still haven’t bothered to fix it. Hahaha! Mygosh!!!
PS: Ganda ng new layout mo!!!
Thanks, Jhanz!
Disqus was actually the main reason why I moved to WordPress! LOL. I was using it in my old Blogger blog and one day it became so messed up that I just gave up and researched what I need to move to WordPress.
I feel a little better now and relieved to know that mine isn’t an isolated case and this also happens to other people. Hahaha. It truly sucks to lose a portion of our comments though! WordPress to the rescue.
Oh no! haha I’m using Disqus pa naman. I’ve used it before and i haven’t encountered those issues yet. Hopefully not! Isn’t there a backup of some sorts from disqus? hmm cant remember though. Part of me deciding to just use disqus was because i dont have to style it at all haha so yeah just being lazy. Also I dont know why but I dont like styling input fields lol. I hope you’ll be able to sort this issue out, 3k comments is a lot! 😀
You can backup the comments in your ‘forum’ in disqus but the problem in my case is when you have to put it back sa WordPress (from disqus).. magkakahalo-halo yung galing WP to Disqus back to WP tapos di siya madedetect as a comment na may kapareha na sa WP comments database. Resulting in double comments. Am I making sense? Bigla ako naconfuse sa sinabi ko hahaha.
I have the 3k comments pa rin, around 300 something yung nawala. Sigh. Okay lang, it was around 2014-2015 naman. I am slowly getting over it now.
Oh, I thought Disqus is goiong to shutdown because of your title. Haha. I actually don’t like disqus because of the same reasons you pointed – hindi nagloload, mabagal, etc. haha I eve included Disqus in one of my “future” blogposts, Blogging Pet Peeves, or something like that since I can’t think of a title yet haha
Good you were able to keep “some” of the comments. Goodluck sa pagchecheck but nah, hayaan mo na yung iba. Haha
Yeah, hinayaan ko na nga.. haha. It was a bunch of recent-ish comments from the previous years naman not super old ones like from 2008 pa..
I used to have Disqus on my blog too but since I moved to WP, I use their default commenting system. I love it cuz it looks cleaner and suits my theme.
Ok this makes me want to go back to native WP comments too! I didn’t know Disqus slows down loading but the best part about it is you don’t have to configure how it looks because it’s just all the same. The downside for me is I can’t click directly through a commenter’s link. Should I take the risk???
Yes that was also a downside for me! At the time, I was annoyed most people manually put their links in the comment.. hahaha, now I understand why!
I think it’s safe to go back naman, maybe just do it once when you’ve decided to. I also should have ticked ‘remove all discus comments before syncing’ in those times I kept resyncing.. kaya siguro nasira kasi inulit ulit ko (thinking it would fix the #2 problem from my post).