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Re:Disqus comments adding third-party ad-tracking by kinkrtyavimoodh on Monday September 25, 2017 @06:39PM (#15334764)
While it's true that almost all the good conversation is in a secondary place, it's also true that a lot of it would not reach the author, especially if the discussion happens in a secondary place that the author would not expect it to.
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Re:Disqus comments adding third-party ad-tracking by damnstraight on Monday September 25, 2017 @06:51PM (#15334823)
Right. It's on the author to provide any means of communication that doesn't go through disqus—say, twitter, email, slack, github, keybase, etc etc. I can't think this would be onerous for anyone.
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Re:Disqus comments adding third-party ad-tracking by KGIII on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @02:14AM (#15336594)
Call me old-school but email works. Everyone has an email address. It's so simple, is a standard. They can even do a fancy portal to email, as a form. Email even sits there until you have time to deal with it.

I've been using email successfully, since the early 1980s. It's easy enough for us old people to understand. Well, some of us understand it. Some folks insist on doing it in emacs, but they are few and far between.

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Re:Disqus comments adding third-party ad-tracking by duncan_bayne on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @08:29AM (#15338004)
Email in Emacs has come a long way in the past few years.

http://cachestocaches.com/2017/3/complete-guide-email-emacs-...

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Re:Disqus comments adding third-party ad-tracking by KGIII on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @09:12AM (#15338284)
How does that saying go?

Emacs, it's a great operating system but a really lousy text editor.

When I first learned to use a computer, you were fancy if you had an amber screen. These days, I don't even get involved in the vi vs. emacs wars. Instead, I recommend gedit.

The other day, someone was pointing out that you could use one of the image libraries and browse in emacs with ASCII art images being generated on the fly. They were seemingly proud of this. I kinda felt bad for then and I wanted to send then a mouse.

I'm only half joking. So long as it works for the individual, who am I to tell them what to do? It does seem pretty crazy, but the world needs crazy people.

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