Early Results Are In: How Polls Are Driving Engagement and Revenue Across the Disqus Network
A few months ago, we launched a lightweight Poll experience built directly into the Disqus comment section. No redesign, no new templates, no extra logins for readers, and no additional cost for ad-supported publishers.
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There’s a golden age in every nascent community. A period when social norms are still forming, the membership is small enough where you can still keep track of who’s who, and the interactions still feel very personal.
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We love talking with communities. It’s even better when we get to use our own product to talk to customers in real-time. That’s why, we’ve recently been jumping around to our favorite communities to host AMAs (ask me anything) where we answer all of the burning questions people have about our product.
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At Disqus, we love using Slack for team communication and collaboration. And based on recent conversations and survey results from publishers, a lot of you do as well. In this post, we’ll provide some examples of how you can use Slack to help you better moderate comments on Disqus.
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Whenever there’s an earthquake here in California, internet junkies flock to Reddit to see what TheEarthquakeGuy has to say. Seemingly at the moment of any seismic disruption, TheEarthquakeGuy jumps online and dishes out all the relevant earthquake facts. From epicenter to magnitude to ground motion change, people have questions, and TheEarthquakeGuy has answers.
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The smell of freshly cut grass, blue skies, the advent of spring. Opening Day has arrived - well, technically about two weeks ago. It’s April and baseball season is back in business. And at Disqus, we love that our open platform of diverse publishers includes passionate baseball communities.
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WordPress is huge. Not like Death Star huge.... Starkiller Base huge. Don’t worry though, WordPress isn’t evil and it doesn’t support destroying entire star systems. It’s a powerful publishing platform that accounts for a massive portion of the diverse web we love. We’re pretty big fans of it here at Disqus, and we have a plugin update to share with you.
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These days, the comments section has become a standard feature on nearly every publisher website. But do Internet comments really add value, or are they just a necessary evil?
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Great communities don’t happen by accident. Explore how you can create a community where people (and robots) can learn to enjoy their passions on the open web.
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SAN FRANCISCO (April 15, 2016) -- Taboola®, the world’s leading discovery platform, today announced its global partnership with Disqus, the world’s leading audience development platform that helps publishers grow and engage with audiences online. The collaboration integrates Taboola’s existing platform with Disqus’ massive distribution across millions of websites around the world, effectively democratizing native advertising for the web.
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If you create Community Guidelines for your site and no one reads them, what’s the point really?
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Update (January 4, 2018): The Disqus for iPhone app is no longer available in the App Store. Today, after much anticipation, we're excited to announce that we've released the first version of our iOS app in the Apple app store.
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