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Re: The Ultimate Guide to Increasing Reader Engagement (Free Ebook)

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Re: Introducing the Disqus SDK: Bring Your Community to Mobile

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Re: Early Results Are In: How Polls Are Driving Engagement and Revenue Across the Disqus Network

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Re: Early Results Are In: How Polls Are Driving Engagement and Revenue Across the Disqus Network

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Re: Early Results Are In: How Polls Are Driving Engagement and Revenue Across the Disqus Network

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Re: Early Results Are In: How Polls Are Driving Engagement and Revenue Across the Disqus Network

Muzammil Hussain — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 06:04:54 -0000

We know that control matters. Publishers do not want surprising experiences appearing on their pages. Good to know that they are paying attention.

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Re: Why Community Is Becoming the Most Valuable Mobile Surface for Publishers

Top Marruecos — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:10:25 -0000

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Re: Why Community Is Becoming the Most Valuable Mobile Surface for Publishers

cageyrv — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:51:27 -0000

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Re: Why Community Is Becoming the Most Valuable Mobile Surface for Publishers

Muzammil Hussain — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 06:22:04 -0000

Good work. Made deep analysis. Thumbs up for the effort.

Re: Why Community Is Becoming the Most Valuable Mobile Surface for Publishers

JohnDisqus — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 02:13:42 -0000

This is a strong analysis of how community-driven features influence mobile engagement. As mobile usage keeps growing, prioritizing comments and discussions is a smart move for publishers looking to boost both user retention and monetization.

Re: Why Community Is Becoming the Most Valuable Mobile Surface for Publishers

Lalita Kumari — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 01:33:17 -0000

This is a well-written analysis of how community features impact mobile engagement. As mobile usage continues to rise, focusing on comments and discussions seems like a smart strategy for publishers to improve retention and monetization.

Re: The Battle for the Homepage: How Publishers Are Using Community to Win Back Control in the Age of Zero-Click

Rodrigo Calvo — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 12:53:20 -0000

I think there’s a layer here getting underplayed.

Community isn’t just about retention metrics. It’s one of the few things left that gives AI systems actual confidence about meaning.

Think about it: Generative search isn't just asking “what page is relevant.” It’s asking “what source feels alive and worth anchoring a summary to?” A static article gets summarized and discarded. A page with active comments, disagreement, and visible momentum is harder to treat as disposable data.

From what I’m seeing, that mix of discussion density + recency acts like a soft trust signal. Not necessarily a ranking factor, but definitely a retrieval signal.

So yeah, building a destination matters. But long term, community does something subtler: it stabilizes context in a world where AI is constantly trying to compress everything into a snippet.

Re: The Battle for the Homepage: How Publishers Are Using Community to Win Back Control in the Age of Zero-Click

AlloCodePromo.Fr — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 01:30:46 -0000

How are publishers planning to balance AI-driven discovery with human-powered community engagement to strengthen their homepage strategy?

Re: The Battle for the Homepage: How Publishers Are Using Community to Win Back Control in the Age of Zero-Click

thermos-expert.com — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:15:14 -0000

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Re: Google's AI Overviews: Game Over for Publisher Traffic?

Sahara Desert Kingdom — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 12:34:23 -0000

Thank you for sharing.

Re: Google's AI Overviews: Game Over for Publisher Traffic?

Kieran 🐺 — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 13:17:05 -0000

I know, this is really what bothers me, MG, and I already pretty much know the answer to that one. Too many take things at face value.
How many spot that small print at the bottom of Google's AI overview "AI responses may include mistakes"?

And I do think it is wrong that it can often quote large chunks verbatim from a site without acknowledging the source of that information.

But back to the issue at hand, I never gave up on the "traditional" means of keeping a community together, such as email, although some people are reluctant to enter their email addresses in forms, which I do understand.

And otherwise, as far as keeping an online community together, the personal touch helps there as well. You can't beat real people meeting and greeting and making you feel valued, that you are indeed part of a community and not just clicks and data.
Generally, the same things work online as in real life, but it's just that people can be more easily duped online as they are seeing what others want to show them, not necessarily what is true.
And if you only look at an AI summary of opinions, you may not be getting the whole picture!

Re: Google's AI Overviews: Game Over for Publisher Traffic?

MG — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 12:29:20 -0000

Thoughtful feedback as always, Kieran... the question is - how many others feel the same and will do the work to ensure they're not getting duped?

Re: Google's AI Overviews: Game Over for Publisher Traffic?

Kieran 🐺 — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 07:04:26 -0000

This is a classic example of everything having pros and cons.
It is ironic that while we are bombarded with "AI is going to make life so much easier, quicker, more efficient", we will increasingly have to resort to traditional methods of doing things to escape its influence.
I am already experiencing AI fatigue: too many AI videos, AI images, let AI do everything for you...
I still value human creativity, human thought and human interaction.

Personally, I won't take an AI generated summary as the truth on anything without questioning or researching what it says.
I see too many who copy and paste that without doing basic fact checking first.

Re: The Ultimate Guide to Increasing Reader Engagement (Free Ebook)

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Re: The Ultimate Guide to Increasing Reader Engagement (Free Ebook)

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