On: Replacing Disqus with GitHub Comments

[trwired]

There is another big (in my eyes) downside to using Reddit for such purpose: Reddit threads are automatically archived after six months, at which point no new comments can be added to them. Of course nothing stops a user from creating a fresh thread, but that leads to fragmentation of comments and if you want to somehow mitigate this, it introduces additional effort.

[JoshTriplett → trwired]

> Reddit threads are automatically archived after six months, at which point no new comments can be added to them.

Some people intentionally do this to the comments on their old posts, to avoid having to monitor them for spam and abuse.

[walterbell → JoshTriplett]

That also eliminates monitoring them for valuable contributions, especially on evergreen content.

[a_t48 → walterbell]

You can always make a new thread, treating reddit as a normal forum.

[gotofritz → a_t48]

Too much work