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Disqus vs LiveFyre

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Overview

Disqus
Disqus
Stacks2.5K
Followers480
Votes466
LiveFyre
LiveFyre
Stacks37
Followers14
Votes0

Disqus vs LiveFyre: What are the differences?

What is Disqus? Elevating the discussion, anywhere on the web. Disqus looks to make it very easy and rewarding for people to interact on websites using its system. Commenters can build reputation and carry their contributions from one website to the next.

What is LiveFyre? We make your site social. Livefyre’s real-time apps get your audience talking and turn your site into the hub for your community. Bloggers, brands and the largest publishers in the world use Livefyre to engage their users and curate live content from around the social web.

Disqus and LiveFyre belong to "Commenting Service" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Disqus are:

  • Clean & Intuitive- We designed the platform to be clutter-free, which keeps people's eyes focused on the discussion itself.
  • Fully real-time Live discussions- Discussions unfold in real-time. Comments stream as they are posted and user activity indicates life on your website.
  • Activity indicators- Indicators make it easier for people to notice, see, and interact with new content and activity as it happens.

On the other hand, LiveFyre provides the following key features:

  • SocialSync- With Livefyre SocialSync, the conversation happening on Facebook and Twitter automatically syncs directly to your content, where it belongs.
  • Social Sign In- Users have the option to sign in with multiple social networks to put a face to their name and comments.
  • Friend Tagging- Getting your friends in on the conversation is as simple as typing the “@” sign. Easily invite Facebook and Twitter friends to join the conversation right from the comment box.

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Advice on Disqus, LiveFyre

Niall
Niall

Oct 5, 2020

Needs adviceonSquarespaceSquarespaceGoogle ChromeGoogle ChromeSafariSafari

I created a Squarespace website with multiple blog pages. I discovered that the native Squarespace commenting tool is not currently capable of letting people subscribe to my blog pages if they are using Google Chrome or Safari! I then discovered that Disqus email verification doesn't work with Yahoo Mail. I also hate that there's no way to turn off that email verification (which I don't need since I moderate all comments anyway). So I want to use a different commenting system. I've read some good things about Commento. Three questions: (1) will it work on a Squarespace site? (I'll pay a developer to integrate it for me) (2) Does it have its own issues/elements that don't work smoothly, similar to the other two? (3) Is there another plugin I should be considering for my Squarespace site?

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Detailed Comparison

Disqus
Disqus
LiveFyre
LiveFyre

Disqus looks to make it very easy and rewarding for people to interact on websites using its system. Commenters can build reputation and carry their contributions from one website to the next.

Livefyre’s real-time apps get your audience talking and turn your site into the hub for your community. Bloggers, brands and the largest publishers in the world use Livefyre to engage their users and curate live content from around the social web.

Clean & Intuitive- We designed the platform to be clutter-free, which keeps people's eyes focused on the discussion itself.;Fully real-time Live discussions- Discussions unfold in real-time. Comments stream as they are posted and user activity indicates life on your website.;Activity indicators- Indicators make it easier for people to notice, see, and interact with new content and activity as it happens.;Typing presence- Disqus even shows when others are in the middle of writing and editing their comment but haven’t posted just yet.;More dynamic content- The real-time system is designed for active communities, live events, and video content.;Quality discussions- A smart voting system surfaces the best content on the page.;Loyal communities- People can see your community’s unique set of top participants and other popular discussions happening across your website.;Mobile- Disqus automatically supports rich, feature-parity on phones and tablets via a fully responsive, end-to-end HTML5 design.;Recommended Conversations- Let users easily find other interesting conversations happening on your website.;Social Sharing- Allow users to easily share any comment or discussion thread to their favorite social network.;Social Reactions- Discussions around your content happens all over the web. Disqus finds these conversations from Twitter and pulls them into the discussion on your website.;Social Tagging- With @mentions, easily include others on Disqus and Twitter in your discussion. Mentioned people are notified and encouraged to join your community.;Moderation Dashboard- Our moderation panel in the Disqus admin is built for sites that have lots of commenting activity;User Reputation- Users can participate anonymously, using a pseudonym, or with a given name.;User History- Learn how long your users have been around and how active they are.;Keyboard Shortcuts- Quickly select a group of items, take action, and change tabs without touching your mouse.;In-Line & Email Moderation- Moderate your site directly on the comment thread while logged in as a moderator or moderate your comment notifications by email with three simple commands.;Spam Controls & Word Filtering- Our smart-spam system works network wide and responds to new flare-ups automatically as moderators indicate new issues.;Blacklisting & Whitelisting- With control lists, specify users, emails, IP addresses, and words.;Import and export anytime- You can import all your existing comments or export;Flexible, Powerful Partner API- Our API is full featured and allows your developers to integrate Disqus into your mobile app, widget, forum or visualization.;Analytics- Visualize data with topical trend analysis, user segmentation and ad sales packaging.;Single Sign-On- Integrate your existing login system and allow your community to comment via your proprietary sign-in, in addition to the social options Disqus makes available.;SEO Optimized- Disqus is fully indexable for search engines out- of-the-box. We have been approved by the Google Search Quality team to be organically crawled unlike any other comment platform.
SocialSync- With Livefyre SocialSync, the conversation happening on Facebook and Twitter automatically syncs directly to your content, where it belongs.;Social Sign In- Users have the option to sign in with multiple social networks to put a face to their name and comments.;Friend Tagging- Getting your friends in on the conversation is as simple as typing the “@” sign. Easily invite Facebook and Twitter friends to join the conversation right from the comment box.;Comment Sharing- With one click, users can easily share comments with their friends on other social networks including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.;Comment Liking- Livefyre even shows the avatars of every user who’s liked a comment.;Rich Text Editor- bold italics, or create a bulleted list to drive home your argument.;LinkBack- LinkBack encourages community interaction by letting other Livefyre bloggers display a link to their latest post when they leave a comment.;Live Listeners- lets readers know exactly how many people are on the current page or have followed the conversation, giving them more incentive to leave a thoughtful response.;Comment Notifiers- The widget shows you who is participating in the conversation and what they are saying as it happens, all without losing your place on the page;Media Embedding- Livefyre Comments 3 enhances your media embedding options so that you can share photos from Flickr and Instagram, play videos from YouTube and Vimeo, flip-through slide decks on SlideShare, listen to songs from SoundCloud and Spotify, geek-out on animated gifs from Myspace, and even feature Wikipedia articles directly in the conversation stream.;Comment Editing- Comment Editing allows users to edit their own comments within a specific time frame so that they can fix their spelling mistakes without changing the context of the following comment stream. Site admins can make edits to all comments as well.;User Profiles- Our user bios allow community members to share a bit about themselves and the topics they care about, while also showing the conversations where they have left comments.;Spam Protection- thanks to real-time machine-learning protection your comments are basically spam-free.;Community Flagging- Multiple admin flagging options give you more insight into the quality of the conversation, and community members can leave you a note to provide further explanation.;Leave Comment Notes- Admins can communicate with other moderators on your site to follow-up with a particular commenter, or visit their blog to leave a comment.;Multiple Moderators- Designate as many moderators as you'd like—editors, guest authors, community managers—and kick it up a notch by managing their access levels too.;Ban & Whitelist Users- Streamline moderation by allowing a core group of readers to comment on your site without passing through the moderation process with Whitelists. You can also deal with trolls and flamers quickly and efficiently by designating them as banned users - removing them and their comments from your community.;Profanity Lists- Every comment is processed through Livefyre’s real-time profanity filters, even the words you didn’t even know existed get nixed before they hit the page.;User Activity- Keep track of the most active participants in your community and see what conversations they are taking part in on other Livefyre blogs.;Moderation and Conversation Reports- Get a view of your most active users and conversations at a glance. Organize your reports by date range and easily track which conversations need your attention.
Statistics
Stacks
2.5K
Stacks
37
Followers
480
Followers
14
Votes
466
Votes
0
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 141
    Ease of use
  • 116
    Free
  • 62
    Great ui
  • 45
    Sign-up not required
  • 40
    Wordpress integration
Cons
  • 4
    Ads
  • 1
    Bugs with migration tool
  • 1
    Poor support
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Integrations
WordPress
WordPress
Tumblr
Tumblr
Blogger
Blogger
Squarespace
Squarespace
No integrations available

What are some alternatives to Disqus, LiveFyre?

Commento

Commento

With Commento, you wouldn't need to worry about shady ad companies getting your data through hundreds of tracking services. You wouldn't need to worry about your page being slowed down - Commento uses just 22 kB total. And it's all open source.

Talk

Talk

Online comments are broken. Our open-source Talk tool rethinks how moderation, comment display, and conversation function, creating the opportunity for safer, smarter discussions around your work.

CommentBox.io

CommentBox.io

Hosted commenting that's painless to embed, a pleasure to use, and a breeze to moderate. No ads. No Tracking. Just Comments.

Cusdis

Cusdis

It is an open source, lightweight (5kb gzipped), privacy-friendly alternative to Disqus.

Utterances

Utterances

It is a lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues. Use GitHub issues for blog comments, wiki pages and more!

Schnack

Schnack

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