I am working on a new website that needs a blog as part of a Spree store. In this case I am custom coding my own blog, to integrate seamlessly with the open source Spree project. The blog won’t be WordPress but I am working on making it similar in functionality for the basic user needs. I have coded out the basic comment functionality when I started to think about using a new practice of outsourcing comments. Many blogs are now moving to the Disqus comments system.
Disqus allows you to off load the coding and maintenance of comments and spam. Users can login with their social network accounts, such as twitter or facebook. The comments then can be integrated into the social network of those leaving comments. It seems to be working for many sites out there, I am just not sure it is for this project.
The project includes a user registration for purchases. I was hoping to eventually integrate the comment functionality from the blog posts to the reviews and utilize the existing user authentication system. Now perhaps I will rethink that and allow reviews or comments on the products via the disqus comment system.
For an example of Disqus in action head over to the Brand5 blog.
If you are using ruby on rails I did come across a gem on github to make disqus integration simple.
Any thoughts about using Disqus in an application that has a user system integrated?
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