Leonard Seamaster

One of the reasons I switched to WordPress years ago was that its native, built-in commenting system was decent, and Akismet offered an effective spam filter.

I’m always surprised when people knock the native commenting system. It’s quite good: threaded comments are supported, you can auto-close comments after a certain number of days, there’s Gravatar support if you want that, and it’s possible to require users to be registered and logged in to comment. Not necessary to install Disqus at all.

I learned that relying on an external service for commenting isn’t a good idea a long time ago. Used to have Blogger+Haloscan; Haloscan provided the comments. When Haloscan shut down, getting the comments exported and re-attached to posts on my blog was a bear of a project. Thanks to WordPress, my posts have had native commenting for years, and I’m in no danger of being at the mercy of the people running an external service.

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