Outbrain vs. Disqus : Which is The Best Comment Management Software and Why

Are you pondering what your readers think about your article ? Honestly speaking, I always remain curious about my readers and eagerly awaits their feedback. Adding the Outbrain rating widget, I can manage it. Outbrain is a rating and recommendations widget. It allows reader to rate a post and receive recommendations from others. It also provides them personalized links to more great contents.

On another hand Disqus (pronounced as “discuss”) is a platform for web comments and discussions. The Disqus comment system can be plugged into any website or blog. It makes commenting easier and more interactive, connecting websites across several discussion community.

Outbrain Vs. Disqus

It’s really hard to find out which is better software tool for comment management since Outbrain has some specific features which Disqus lacks, at the same time, the latter has some advantages over Outbrain. Lets have a look at some striking features of Outbrain and Disqus.

Link Zapper

Updated feature of Outbrain allows you more control over recommended links. With Link Zapper you can strike out recommended links, appearing on your site, if you find them not upto the mark.

But Disqus lacks this facility.

Spam Filter

Disqus provides you improved automated tools, a spam filter and various new technique to help combat abusive language in comments.
Outbrain is yet to find any such solution.

Performance Improvements

Now the Outbrain widget’s loading performance has been increased. Web crawl and indexing is optimized as well. Only loading of blog home page is a bit slow, since it contains so many posts.

Performance of Disqus is also note- worthy.

Real-time posting and updating

You can update comment thread without having to reload the page with new Disqus widget, while in case of Outbrain you have to reload the page.

Full shared control with publishers

Upon installing the Disqus tool, you have the ability to edit and delete comment without having an impact on the site, to which the comment belongs.

This is not supported by Outbrain widget.

New Moderation Panel

The new moderation Disqus panel helps you protect your sites from unwanted things. You can use Approve, Mark Spam, & Delete options whenever necessary. If a spammer continues to plague your site even though you’ve clicked mark spam, the quickest way to resolve this problem is to blacklist his username, email, & ip address. You can do this by clicking the face of their avatar.

I am suspicious whether this is also a feature of Outbrain.

Connect to Social Networking

Reaction in Disqus comment let you seek for social comments from popular networking sites like Twitter, FriendFeed, Digg and YouTube. Now you can line up with the social web and get results from uberVU and BackType.

Outbrain is not talked about for providing these facilities.

Real-time Discussions

With real-time chatter onto your page and real-time posting and updating, you will get no chance to feel bore in your discussion. Rich interactive features such as threaded replies and comment replies will always keep you energized in Disqus comment.

We prefer to keep mum in case of Outbrain.

Conclusion

Though I personally feel Disqus is more sophisticated comment management software than Outbrain, I would recommend you to use both. Astonished? Well I mean to say, use the integrated software of Outbrain and Disqus because they are now venturing into partnership. The integration between Outbrain and Disqus has earned them plenty of new audiences. This cooperation opens an new alley for the bloggers, readers as well as commenters. The integration is a blended widget that invites readers of blog posts to rate and or comment. You can track new interesting articles via Outbrain and leave comments on these articles via Disqus. As a whole, the blogs and websites that have installed Outbrain and Disqus together are going to facilitate bloggers, readers and commenters by creating a community for interaction. It’s really appreciable that Outbrain and Disqus have decided to go hand in hand to strengthen community for general people. Thanks Outbrain, thanks Disqus too!