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Comment by Gormo | Hacker News Reader

I'm one of the 114 RSS subscribers, and I've been checking the feed every day - congratulations on your rapid success.

I really like the idea of full comment threads attached to each product - at best, other sites have heavily-edited reviews pages.

But please consider using something other than Facebook for commenting. I didn't even see the comment threads when I visited with my main browser, because I have Facebook's domains blocked for non-Facebook sites. Considering your target audience, I doubt I'm alone in this.

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Glad to have you as a subscriber!

I understand that some people don't jibe with Facebook and want me to move away from FB comments (I've received several requests). If I do that then I'll have to write an auth system. Not difficult to do but I'd rather focus my time on content right now. Eventually I plan on implementing an auth system and including Twitter and Facebook logins. Once I have that I'll probably move to an in-house commenting system. I can always export the comment data using Facebook's API later to keep the existing comments.

As far as the audience goes, I know you're not alone in this but the people who have boycotted Facebook aren't the majority of users (even HN users). They're just a rather vocal group. ;)

For now I think I've got most users covered for their commenting needs.

Have you looked at Disqus? Provides the same pre-built commenting system, and you can log in with whatever service you want. http://disqus.com

Why don't you simply use Disqus? It should be as easy as FB and much hacker friendlier... I for one can't stand the fact that FB comments don't zoom.

Why not use Disqus? It supports Facebook logins, but also Google, Twitter, and generic OpenID.

Disqus is fine I suppose. I've used it in the past but didn't feel the urge to use them again. One thing I really like about the Facebook comment system is when someone posts a comment to a product or in the blog it posts that comment on their wall with a link back to the page. It has helped with generating traffic. Certainly a feature I will try to add for the in-house comments (of course though, that would require extra permissions).

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