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If it only went down for about an hour during this whole time, then that's not really much of an argument for moving away from this type of service, because that is really excellent uptime.

But it doesn't seem ideal or really necessary for everyone to rely on one company for blog comments or for searches/advertising or anything.

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IMO, Disqus is great for adding discussion to pages which don't have a built in commenting system; for example a single page which shows some demo of code.

But for my wordpress blog, I prefer native comments as it removes the dependency to a third party service

The Disqus plugin for WordPress can sync comments to your database. That way you still have your comments if Disqus goes down, or you decide not to use it. I still go with native because I prefer the way it looks. :)

Hmm. Is the Disqus plugin capable of automatically falling back to native Wordpress commenting in the case of Disqus down? If so, the authors need not panic even if Disqus down.

that seems like something you can easily implement on your end, not the disqus end.

You can disable the plugin if Disqus goes down long enough to matter and resync later.

Agreed. It's a simple task from my end to disable the Disqus plug-in during the downtime.

But what if the service goes down during the night time where I might not be able to immediately login to my wordpress and disable the Disqus plug-in until next morning?

Wouldn't be nice if the plug-in automatically takes care of itself, rather than manual intervention?

How good is the Wordpress COmmenting system - Intensedebate?

I have no issues with the native WP comments. Plus, there are plugins that change their behavior.

Specific ones you might recommend? I'd be happy to hear some options worth considering.

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