Loading ...
Defensio: finally a competitor for Akismet
I must admit that I am a happy user of Akismet. I remember the times when I thought I can approve the comments posted on this blog manually and not have to use a software solution that I didn’t trust so much (how naive I was). Well, after a while I just realized that this was just impossible and I started using Akismet… the result? I practically forgot about the comment spam problem. I am just checking the akismet stats and I just see how much trouble it has saved me:
Akismet has caught 120,722 spam for you since you first installed it.
You have no spam currently in the queue. Must be your lucky day. 
Wow… 120k? In less than one year? I am sure other bloggers have much bigger numbers… but still. It makes you think…
A few days ago I read on the Akismet Blog that they are welcoming a new competitor: Defensio.
This is great news, but why would I want to change from Akismet? Personally I don’t want to change. I don’t have any reason to do this.
Why are they promoting their competitor? Probably they are confident that many peoples will think the same as me.
If I was a new user and had to choose one of the two solutions from their websites most certainly I would have chosen Defensio 
.
While I will continue to use Akismet as long as I don’t have any reason to change, I am happy that there is a new serious competitor that I can choose if needed. Competition is always a good thing and hopefully will make both solutions better, bloggers happy and comment span a forgotten problem!
Share This
29th December 2007, 17:32
no, i don’t think tht this is best of askimet…