
Having a good commenting platform encourages your visitors to comment on your WordPress blog. It will help you to make a great audience around your blog. The most popular commenting platform is Disqus. However, Disqus tracks your visitors and sells your data to other companies. So, it's time to remove Disqus from your website. What are the alternatives?
1. Hyvor Talk
Hyvor Talk is new to the scene and has gained popularity among news sites recently. As Hyvor Talk says, they do not track your visitors or sells your data to third parties. And, in my opinion, it's easy to use than Disqus. There are only little moving parts, unlike Disqus. It has a lot of customization options. This product is a freemium product. However, it provides a very generous free plan, if you are a starter.
The other plugins below will extend the native comments system. However, Hyvor Talk completely replaces it. All the data will be saved in Hyvor Talk's databases. However, you can export them when you need.
2. WordPress Native Comments
The easiest way to get rid of Disqus is to just disable the plugin and use native WordPress comments instead. This way, you can control everything in your WordPress dashboard. One downside of this is that you'll get a ton of spam comments. While there are some techniques to eliminate comments spam, it's not possible to completely get rid of them. There is a lot of bots created just to publish comments on WordPress blogs. If you don't want to spend money on commenting platform, this option would be the best one.
3. WPDiscuz
WPDiscuz is a commenting plugin just for WordPress. It extends the Wordpress native comments system. It's free to use. There are also paid add-ons that will help you add more features to commenting experience. Check out great add-ons provided by WPDiscuz.
What do you think of these options for a better commenting experience?