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I predict this will be a trend soon, also people are going to ditch services like disqus. Big websites want to have total control over their client account and comments. This is not really clever to always trust third parties, especially with comments which are a huge part of the SEO.

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Let me add: Hopefully they will end using 3rd party comment systems that forces you to either break the rules (fake Facebook etc accounts) or sign every comment with you full online profile.

(In at least a few foras I frequent the result is that in most controversial case you miss out a whole lot of reasonable but not politically correct voices. Real trolls either don't care about Terms and Conditions and create another fake account or they troll using full name and address.)

It's interesting that the Huffington post went the other way, just this week. Dropping their in-house commenting system in favour of facebook-comments:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/otto-toth/were-moving-the-conv...

In some way it makes sense, as you ditch the whole dynamic part of your page generation, allowing you to effectively use a static dump for your website. You can then update that periodically. Facebook is left to pick up all the hosting hassles and expense. Also you tap into the Facebook ecosystem. Having said that I doubt I'd even leave a Facebook comment on another website, I haven't yet.

There are middle grounds though - if you want to have a mostly-static site, and still allow dynamic comments.

There are some self-hosted systems out there, including my trivial e-comments code: https://github.com/skx/e-comments/

Perhaps that is what they already had. If they were to use your app, they'd still have to manage and carry the costs associated. That probably isn't their main motivation.

I remember a few years ago whenever you clicked on a Guardian news link in Facebook it would try and get you to sign up to their Facebook app/plugin, that would then publish on your timeline what you'd been reading, let alone commenting on. I thought that was a bit ghastly.

I'm assuming that when you make a comment through Facebook on the Huff post, it displays on your timeline or some such, providing additional reach for the story.

It has nothing to do with trend, its about the corporation (Yahoo) supporting its own products...

Yes, let us create an in-house crappy forum system. Better yet, let's use a crappy Open Source solution which was designed 15 years ago.

Some cloud services are used because they're actually useful and good at what they do.

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