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I've never used Disqus, and I guess this might be off topic, but...

Do they let you export the comments people leave on your website so you can easily switch to another commenting platform?

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Yes, IIRC it's one of their big selling points. You can easily get your data out and use it for whatever you want. For example I believe many Jekyll blogs use Disqus for comments and periodically grab all the comments then write them into the html so that google will spider the comment section.

I believe in wordpress their plugin automatically stores all comments so that if you turn it off they convert to the wordpress comments.

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