Comparing Disqus to Staticman

Compare Disqus with Staticman for adding comments to your static site.

Disqus

Engage your audiences in discussions

Partial free

Overview

Founded 2007; acquired by Zeta Global 2017; not open source; data stored on Disqus servers

+ Pros

• Mature platform
• large community
• social login
• moderation tools
• notifications
• spam filtering

− Cons

• Vendor lock-in
• ads on free plan
• data ownership concerns
• privacy issues
• injected JS slows site
• centralized

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Staticman

Static sites with superpowers

Overview

Community instance available but may be unreliable; data lives in your repo

+ Pros

• Open source
• content stored in GitHub repository
• moderation via pull requests
• no vendor lock-in

− Cons

• Requires GitHub account
• no built-in responses display
• setup complexity
• relies on GitHub API

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