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I just stumbled upon Disqus today and am wondering why I would ever need to create my own Comment/Post model again :). Does Disqus store comments in their own database or do you have to store them too? How does this impact performance?

Is Disqus worth it?

Lance Pollard
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    I question the justification for the closing of this question as not being programming related. Anyone who has ever had to develop a comment system would be very interested in reuse instead of rewriting. Sometimes avoiding the need to program is as important as sitting down and programming it. – Mike Feb 21 '10 at 22:07
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    "How does this impact performance?" in and of itself qualifies this question as being programming related. Power comes with responsibilities. Do not abuse it. – un33k Sep 07 '10 at 18:01

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Disqus stores them and provides admin tools, etc.

The performance impact actually in the negative for your backend (since the comment stuff is loaded and inserted into the page at load time) but obviously not for your users :)

You can use the disqus api to get your comments and insert them into your page at generation time if you like, but the usual way is just to include their javascript.

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