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Discussion on: A thought about Twitter comments plugin

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Ben Halpern

We've had this thought a bit here. Since such a big part of our community runs through Twitter. A couple thoughts:

  • One of the benefits of forcing users to sign up is the barrier to contribution and ability to enforce guidelines more easily.
  • Comment plugins can be an ugly mess in general sometimes.

If we go this route, these are problems we have the capacity to fix because we already have the infrastructure to listen in on Twitter and render the tweets ourselves, so we can implement our own gates and moderation.

Another issue is that investing too much in Twitter as a platform for your own comment system is iffy because they can pull the rug out from under you at any time. This is true for other systems as well, of course.