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Disqus vs Prerender: What are the differences?
Developers describe Disqus as "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. On the other hand, Prerender is detailed as "Allow your javascript apps to be crawled perfectly by search engines. Works for AngularJS, BackboneJS, EmberJS and more". Search engines and social networks are always trying to crawl your pages, but they only see the javascript tags...We render your javascript in a browser, save the static HTML, and you return that to the crawlers!.
Disqus and Prerender are primarily classified as "Commenting Service" and "SEO for Javascript" tools respectively.
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, Prerender provides the following key features:
- Open Source
- Perfect Cache
- Blazing Fast
Prerender is an open source tool with 5.19K GitHub stars and 767 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Prerender's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Disqus
- Ease of use141
- Free116
- Great ui62
- Sign-up not required45
- Wordpress integration40
- Replies26
- Up votes18
- Threaded discussion8
- Easy ghost integration6
- Tumblr Integration4
Pros of Prerender
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Cons of Disqus
- Ads4
- Poor support1
- Bugs with migration tool1