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Re:Show HN: How I turned an old book into a (barely) profita... by rapind on Thursday December 27, 2012 @07:12PM (#4975796)
Disqus loads in after page load, so it shouldn't add load time to the content. Also keep in mind that comments add SEO (and can be extremely valuable for this reason alone).

Plus I don't think it's such a bad idea from a reader's perspective. Seems like the worse case scenario is that no one uses it, and the best case scenario people are able to contribute to improvements.

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Re:Show HN: How I turned an old book into a (barely) profita... by toast0 on Friday December 28, 2012 @12:27AM (#4976570)
If the comments load in after the page loads, crawlers are unlikely to see them, so you're not getting much SEO benefit.

Worst case is off-topic comments that take time to remove, significantly worse than nobody using it.

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Re:Show HN: How I turned an old book into a (barely) profita... by rapind on Sunday December 30, 2012 @04:45PM (#4987237)
They actually have a deal with google where all of their comments are directly indexed and attributed to the sites (likely similar to canonical references).

It used to be a problem a couple years ago, and sites would then use the API to load in comments and include them server-side. Obviously this wasn't ideal, but it's a solved problem now.

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Re:Show HN: How I turned an old book into a (barely) profita... by AlexMuir on Friday December 28, 2012 @03:18AM (#4976972)
Google definitely indexes disqus comments.
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