# Using Discourse as a replacement for Disqus
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-as-a-replacement-for-disqus/141594
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [February 14, 2020, 10:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-as-a-replacement-for-disqus/141594 "2020-02-14T10:40:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@johnsondavies](https://meta.discourse.org/u/johnsondavies)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2020, 10:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-as-a-replacement-for-disqus/141594/1 "2020-02-14T10:40:22Z")
I currently have a technical blog, Technoblogy, that uses Disqus to provide comments on each page. I’m looking at the feasibility of replacing this with a Discourse forum, and I’d be grateful for guidance from users who have already done this sort of thing.
I’ve read this article:
> [@Using Discourse to power comments in an event system or blog?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-to-power-comments-in-an-event-system-or-blog/90308):
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> Now that Disqus has been taken over by Zeta Global a big marketing and harvesting firm, a lot of developers are hesitant to keep using it, leaving those needing a modular comments system without an obvious alternative. Lots of small projects but nothing i can see that’s established yet. Our community use Discourse, and we also have an event system with a comments section in each event created. I’d love to be able to use Discourse to power that. I believe that the current plugin would need to b…
Can anyone give a few links to sites that already do this, so I can see what it looks like and how well it works.
I’ve also read this article about transferring my existing comments across from Disqus to Discourse:
> [@State of disqus to discourse importer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/state-of-disqus-to-discourse-importer/73844):
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> I am trying to migrate my comments from disqus to discourse and came across these comments [https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrating-from-disqus-to-discourse-for-static-blog-comments/19947/22?u=quintin\_par](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrating-from-disqus-to-discourse-for-static-blog-comments/19947/22) I couldn’t find the importer at [https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/lib/tasks/disqus.thor](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/lib/tasks/disqus.thor) Those posts were in 2014 and the last topic on this is 2016 if I am not wrong [https://meta.discourse.org/t/disqus-import-script/38750](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disqus-import-script/38750) Is the importer still active?
Has anyone used this recently? How well does it work?
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2020, 10:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-as-a-replacement-for-disqus/141594/2 "2020-02-14T10:42:09Z")
> [@johnsondavies](#):
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> Can anyone provide a few links to sites that already do this?
[https://blog.codinghorror.com](https://blog.codinghorror.com) & [https://samsaffron.com](https://samsaffron.com)
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2024, 11:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-as-a-replacement-for-disqus/141594/3 "2024-01-11T11:57:53Z")
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2024, 12:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-as-a-replacement-for-disqus/141594/4 "2024-01-11T12:27:23Z")