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The Disqus plugin for WordPress can sync comments to your database. That way you still have your comments if Disqus goes down, or you decide not to use it. I still go with native because I prefer the way it looks. :)

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Hmm. Is the Disqus plugin capable of automatically falling back to native Wordpress commenting in the case of Disqus down? If so, the authors need not panic even if Disqus down.

that seems like something you can easily implement on your end, not the disqus end.

You can disable the plugin if Disqus goes down long enough to matter and resync later.

Agreed. It's a simple task from my end to disable the Disqus plug-in during the downtime.

But what if the service goes down during the night time where I might not be able to immediately login to my wordpress and disable the Disqus plug-in until next morning?

Wouldn't be nice if the plug-in automatically takes care of itself, rather than manual intervention?

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