In reply to Alec Kinnear.

WPTavern is using Postmatic (for comment notifications) but also our other plugins Epoch[1] and Crowd Control[2]. Epoch is a javascript replacement for the comment template that came with your theme. You didn't notice that posting a comment here has gone down from about 12 seconds to 2 ;P

Just like Postmatic... Epoch is fully native as well. It changes *how* your comments are rendered, *not where they come from*. Your data is yours, we just add a pretty layer to the top. Tavern could switch off Epoch at any time and go back to using the comment template that came with their theme, or use Jetpack, or something like wp-discuz or de:comments. The data is safe, local, and untouched by them all.

I think that Disqus has done so much damage in the commenting space that everyone is so reactionary about the whole thing. We hear nothing but complaints about us being another third party commenting system. We're not. We've just done a lot to make native commenting easy, fun, and perform like... well.. not native comments.

And you are right: anyone that thinks that their data is safe when it is flying around via email hasn't done their homework. We make no claims that email is secure. We once had a user get very aggressive with us about the contents of their comments flowing through our servers. My response was *why would i spend 2 years building machinery to read your comments when instead I could have just visited your website?*.

Thanks for the nod, Jason