Ha, I wish I was being paid for pointing out the obvious fact that commodity software components tend to become consolidated over time.

Disqus is just a piece of software that powers the comment section of this, and many other websites. It's just a way for websites to not have to maintain all the commenting code/functionality themselves, which frees them up to focus on their bread and butter. Saying The AV Club "sold out to Disqus" is so misguided…