Ask HN: Should I ditch disqus and what are some alternatives
I'm beginning to think that maybe I should ditch disqus from my blog with all the tracking issues, but I still want to keep commenting on my blog. So what are some alternatives?
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For my small blog with 1-2 comments a month I'm thinking about implementing a small form and include comments manually using front-matter options or a separate comments file. This would make the comments fully static which is big plus. Spam will obviously be the biggest problem, so something like Akismet is necessary.
[0] https://staticman.net/
[1] https://posativ.org/isso/
[2] https://github.com/netlify/gotell
[3] https://mademistakes.com/articles/jekyll-static-comments/
[0] https://www.remarkbox.com/
[1] http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/t/remarkbox-is-the-disqus-alt...
(Jeff Atwood is a co-founder of it and it's open source.)
Most of what I found either didn't work at all or wouldn't allow anonymous comments.
I even thought about making one since it seems a market well underserved. But settled on Disqus for lack of time to dedicate to the project.
A good start point I would use is to start looking at WordPress. I think they got most of it right. It's simple, fast and allow anonymous comments. It's a shame I cannot use it as a standalone version or hosted by myself.
If you want to have a static-blog you can look at self-hosting a commenting system though, I wrote one which uses javascript to fetch, display, and add comments easily enough. Styling is hard and you lose integration with facebook, etc, but its an option if you have time to tinker.