Product looks fantastic, well done. Always refreshing to see services actively attempt to keep payloads small.
If there is anything to criticize about the marketing part for me it would be the "privacy focused" bit. Personally I think in 2019 saying you're privacy focused and then only baking that up with a privacy policy is a bit much. You can change it at any time and "continued use of the service" is deemed to have accepted any changes. But even then, AFAIK privacy policies aren't legally binding right?
"Privacy focused" to me means that the business running the service has limited or no access to private information in some way. But that's just me, I am probably a minority.
Honestly, I always thought being privacy focused is simply not succumbing to third-party trackers, ads, and other shady stuff. Really, the barrier for entry to qualify as privacy-focused in the comments space is extremely low.
But you make a good point. I'll think about this to see if there are more concrete ways to offer privacy.
"Privacy" isn't the real issue for me. The reason I don't want all that tracking to happen with my comments plugin is speed.
Disqus is awful because it spins for 8 seconds before you can see any comments. All that time tracking my users and violating their privacy adds up to a terrible user experience for them.
If they could track my users and violate their privacy during the 100ms it aught to take to load comments from a database, that would be fine.
Everybody tracks and violates these days, so it's all just noise at this point. At least they don't pop up their own thing my users need to click on to accept it all.
The important thing is that comments work. And Disqus can't make that happen.
If there is anything to criticize about the marketing part for me it would be the "privacy focused" bit. Personally I think in 2019 saying you're privacy focused and then only baking that up with a privacy policy is a bit much. You can change it at any time and "continued use of the service" is deemed to have accepted any changes. But even then, AFAIK privacy policies aren't legally binding right?
"Privacy focused" to me means that the business running the service has limited or no access to private information in some way. But that's just me, I am probably a minority.