Nothing to Disqus and I wants it back.....

Ryan Spoon explains his views re Disqus - and les autres - very well so I have flattered and pasted it here as its as good as anything I would have said

As a blog owner, though, Disqus simply isn’t empowering enough…. yet:

My core issue is that the content (and it can be argued that comments and discussions are the most important aspect of a site) isn’t truly mine. It’s rendered via javascript on my end and as direct html on Disqus.com. That means that I lose all of the SEO value of the comments (which is significant) and Disqus gains from it. Honestly, that makes me quite uncomfortable. A couple other critiques:

- Trackbacks are critical elements of a blog (SEO, navigation, etc). They aren’t yet available with Disqus and are must-adds.

- Disqus doesn’t provide commenter emails and contact information. Sounds minor, but I have engaged directly with numerous readers and formed deep relationships. Another must-have before I switch back. (update: according to Daniel Ha of Disqus email addresses are accessible; full response in below comments)

- The administration and deep interactions occur on Disqus.com - and consequently off my site. Furthermore, as the admin, there is neither enough transparency nor available configurations.

As my co-founder Dave Short put it so succinctly yesterday - we were talking in general about aggregators and how their gig was to take our content, our conversations etc and put it on their sites for their fun and eventual sellout profit - "why would we do that" ? I suspect because the game theory here is wrong, this sort of functionality will be implemented by blogging software itself.