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0 pointslarrys11y ago0 comments

"We run the largest Wordpress website out there, and decided to rewrite commenting inhouse."

Can you elaborate on the reasons for doing so and what motivated that action?

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We wanted to own our data, wanted to maintain existing user accounts, don't care about federated commenting login, want to keep old comments on old stories, and didn't really feel like paying someone (or letting someone suddenly add ads to it).

Building it from scratch on top of the WP database made sense for us. The WP commenting code is some of the worst (and oldest) stuff in the entire codex.

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0 pointslarrys11y ago0 comments

"We run the largest Wordpress website out there, and decided to rewrite commenting inhouse."

Can you elaborate on the reasons for doing so and what motivated that action?

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brokentone11y ago

Building it from scratch on top of the WP database made sense for us. The WP commenting code is some of the worst (and oldest) stuff in the entire codex.

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