In reply to Steve Wilkinson.

Hi Steve,

We take care of many publishers with between 50K and 250K/month in page views and I can tell you they certainly wouldn't be happy to pay $99/month for slow javascript comments (Disqus). I don't think most of them would want add additional "monetization" to cover Disqus costs when they could have first rate comments on WordPress with either Thoughtful Comments + replyable ($3/month) or TC + Comments Plus ($10/one time) or wpDisquz + something (not sure of their compatibility). I've just had a look at the wpDisquz store. Each add-on (and there's about twenty) is between $25 and $95. I find the interface pretty busy. We should promote TC more actively. We have a high performance Disqus equivalent comments plugin for WordPress for free and we only have 500+ sites using it. That's the problem with free - there's no economic incentive for us to promote Thoughtful Comments. We just want comments on WordPress to be better. We'd love to contribute the caching and improved moderation tools to WordPress core.