Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Disqus
The 20 closest website comment hosting alternatives to Disqus, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 10 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Disqus? The closest matches are Slashdot, SlideShare and Reddit. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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- Sites searched
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01 · Entity
About Disqus
Disqus disqus.com
#1 in audience engagement and community growth | Disqus
More publishers trust us to engage, grow, and understand their audiences than any other. Build your on-site community with Disqus.
Wikidata: website comment hosting service
Summary by Claude
Disqus is a hosted comment system that websites embed to add discussion threads, with moderation, spam filtering, user profiles, notifications and audience analytics.
- Who it’s for
- Website publishers, bloggers and online media
- Business model
- Advertising and paid subscription plans
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Disqus’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Disqus
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Disqus, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters, & software
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters. Timely news source for technology related news and B2B software reviews & comparisons.
Very close cos 0.898 - 03
product discovery website
Close cos 0.884 - 04
Your access has been blocked – The Atlantic
magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C.
Close cos 0.886 - 05
Ghost: The best open source blog & newsletter platform
Beautiful, modern publishing with email newsletters and paid subscriptions built-in. Used by Platformer, 404Media, Lever News, Tangle, The Browser, and thousands more.
Close cos 0.880 - 06
Hot Questions - Stack Exchange
Stack Overflow – 180+ community-powered knowledge sites.
Close cos 0.881 - 07
Genius
American digital media company
Close cos 0.879 - 08
Home – Lycos
search engine and web portal
Close cos 0.877 - 09
Answers - The Most Trusted Place for Answering Life's Questions
Answers is the place to go to get the answers you need and to ask the questions you want
Close cos 0.879 - 10
Wix.com - The platform trusted by millions of businesses
Build the business you have in mind on a platform trusted by millions. Hosting, business tools, domains and marketing built in. Try it for free.
Close cos 0.878 - 11
Wikidot - Free and Pro Wiki Hosting
Polish wiki hosting corporation
Close cos 0.877 - 12
Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games
Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.
Close cos 0.875 - 13
Blogger.com - Create a unique and beautiful blog easily.
Publish your passions your way. Whether you’d like to share your knowledge, experiences or the latest news, create a unique and beautiful blog.
Close cos 0.878 - 14
DEV Community
A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career
Close cos 0.877 - 15
Simple Page
food focused online social networking service
Close cos 0.874 - 16
Digg - News, before it trends
See what's next in AI before it trends. Digg watches the people who move first.
Close cos 0.872 - 17
GIPHY - Be Animated
GIPHY is the platform that animates your world. Find the GIFs, Clips, and Stickers that make your conversations more positive, more expressive, and more you.
Close cos 0.873 - 18
Publications / My feed / Habr
collaborative blog
Close cos 0.874 - 19
Bazaarvoice | The UGC Platform for Authentic Shopper Experiences
The leading UGC platform for authentic ratings, reviews, visual UGC, and review syndication that powers discovery, shopper trust, and higher ecommerce conversion.
Close cos 0.873 - 20
American question-and-answer website
Close cos 0.873
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to disqus.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Disqus uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Disqus is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Marketing automation
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX disqus-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:servers.mcsv.net include:429754.spf04.hubspotemail.net…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-179.awsdns-22.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=VWUavCxXQBdA22BdIz4KQDlSXFLiCdhywIZhyap…
- Dropbox TXT dropbox-domain-verification=xgxriaywlrcv
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=_XCFILJ7eSiRq9rSWcB9wqJjbgKsGbvW2wQ9F…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=bNxtittci6R0vzV6tO1HsHyQrydEZNZ5y1RgGoTEsHk
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Disqus adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace · not on disqus.com 16/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on disqus.com 9/20
- Cloudflare · not on disqus.com 8/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on disqus.com 8/20
- Amazon Route 53 7/20
- Apple Business · not on disqus.com 7/20
- Atlassian 6/20
- DocuSign · not on disqus.com 6/20
- Stripe · not on disqus.com 5/20
- Zendesk · not on disqus.com 5/20
- SendGrid · not on disqus.com 5/20
- Mailchimp 4/20
- Microsoft 365 4/20
- OneTrust · not on disqus.com 4/20
- Google Fonts · not on disqus.com 4/20