Overview
In your site settings there are a few options available to provide your site identity. These include:
Website name
Simply the name of your site. This will show up in Disqus feeds, Email notifications, and your Community tab.
Website URL
The starting URL of your site. Note that this is for display purposes and your site won't be bound to only this domain.
Category
Your site's general category. Choose "Other" if none of the choices are relevant.
Description
Usually one or two engaging sentences about your site to draw people in.
Language
The default language to be displayed in the Disqus embed. This can be overridden with the javascript language override.
Site Image (Favicon)
Images are pulled automatically, more information below.
The default language to be displayed in the Disqus embed. This can be overridden with the javascript language override.
Note: your forum shortname cannot be changed. The shortname is not user-facing and does not need to be updated if your Website name changes
Other identity information
In addition to the above, we also pull in images and content from the articles. It's best practice to include proper Open Graph tags on your pages in order to represent your content the way you'd like to.
Favicons are automatically pulled in from the URL provided in the site identity settings, so make sure an accessible address is provided in order for us to receive it.
Is Disqus showing an old favicon for your website?
Click the blue chat icon on this this page in the bottom right corner and please provide us the following so we can reset the image:
Website URL
Disqus shortname
Where is this information shown?
This information will be aggregated throughout several places:
The Site link at the top of comments on the User Profile
My Disqus feeds
Email notifications and digests