[ Thanks to
Jacob Barkdull for this link. ]
“Why am I reinventing Disqus? That is the question I’ve
been getting asked since I “announced” on Identi.ca that I’d be
replacing Disqus with a free (AGPL) comment system that I was to
write. Well, I am not the inventor of Disqus, so technically I
can’t reinvent something I didn’t forehand invent. And because I’m
not about to run a service for millions of people, my comment
system won’t have accounts (though it will have the possibility of
setting a password so that only certain persons can post with their
certain names.)“I’ve also been getting the pragmatic question of “Why replace
it, if it works? Source Code isn’t worth having to reinvent
Disqus.” Well I guess I should point out a few things I don’t like
about Disqus, both technically and ethically. So let’s start with
the obvious.”