[support] how tackle forms

Jamie Holly hovercrafter at earthlink.net
Thu Apr 11 15:51:35 UTC 2013


Actually Disqus doesn't refresh the page anymore. Updates are done via 
websockets and just adding in the new comments to the dom. They made 
that change last year.

Jamie Holly
http://www.intoxination.net
http://www.hollyit.net

On 4/10/2013 6:47 PM, John Summerfield wrote:
> On 10/04/13 23:50, Info Razor wrote:
> > There are 3rd party tools that let you do this, like Disqus. Otherwise
> > you can enable anonymous commenting, I'm not sure off the top of my head
> > if commenting is indexed for searching, you'd need to test. For making
> > nodes, if you want that could also be permitted for anonymous.
> >
>
> As a user, I don't like Disqus because it endlessly chews up bandwidth
> by refreshing the page without my permission.
>
> Bandwidth is not free, and I often have dozens of browser windows open
> with maybe dozens of tabs open at the same time. And then there are the
> lappie and the tabbie.
>
> I block Disqus at the firewall. I am not interested in realtime updates
> to any forum threads anywhere.
>
> Fun fact: right now on my desktop I have nine firefox windows, six
> google chrome and 19 seamonkey windows open spread over 40 desktops in
> two screens.
>
>



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