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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?

Was curious about how many HTTP requests were used to load all the Icons, but found that those are not separate 'images', instead SVG is being used to 'draw' them, thus just taking one HTTP request to load a bunch of icons.

Impressive work.

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.

Impressive, especially the menu bar after login.

Is there any JS code involved in dragging windows? From the code, I could see JQuery UI is being used. So, its like OSX Lion in CSS3+JavaScript.

Nevertheless, a commendable effort.

IMO, Disqus is great for adding discussion to pages which don't have a built in commenting system; for example a single page which shows some demo of code.

But for my wordpress blog, I prefer native comments as it removes the dependency to a third party service

It is back to online now.

//Also, I'm unsurprised that HTML5 developers are well-represented at hackathons,//

The pattern I observed in the internal hackathons, of the company I work for, was the dominance of web developers participating/winning over c++/Java developers.

As you said, the main reason for this was web developers were able to produce something that the audience can 'see' and in short amount of time.

Also, I've been thinking a lot about the survival of C++/Java developers in web company - because of the introduction of technologies, like Node.js. Because, now it is possible that a JavaScript programmer could do both back-end and front-end stuffs.