Moving from Disqus to Schnack

Re:Moving from Disqus to Schnack by detaro on Monday December 18, 2017 @06:01PM (#15956268)

Because you like everything else about the static blog (static files are easily hosted and trivial to move to other hosts or CDNs, many devs like the integration with git, you like the workflow of doing everything locally until the push to publish, good hosting solutions that scale a lot are really cheap).

If something goes wrong with the server you host (suddenly tons of visitors, some failure), only your comments are down, not your entire site, assuming the static hosting is on other infrastructure (and even if not, it's easily moved again).

Maybe you used an external service before and want to get rid of it, like the example in the article, but do not want to completely change how your blog works for this.

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Re:Moving from Disqus to Schnack by minimaxir on Monday December 18, 2017 @06:04PM (#15956287)

Part of the motivation for using a static site (especially GitHub Pages) is to eliminate the time, energy and cost of doing DevOps.

Going full DevOps just for blog comments is not great ROI. If I couldn't use Disqus/FB Comments and was forced to self-host my own blog comments on my static blog, I'd just remove blog comments altogether.

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Re:Moving from Disqus to Schnack by gka on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @05:15AM (#15959142)

Part of the motivation for running your own static blog engine (as opposed to Medium) is that you believe in a decentralized internet. I used to run my own Wordpress server for a decade before I gave up dealing with the security flaws and moved to a static blog.

Sure, I could’ve just live without comments, but that’s again forcing the discussion into other „centralized“ communities like Twitter or Facebook. So I threw in the time to create and set up Schnack.js to have the best of both worlds: a static no-hazzle website with self-hosted comments.

Also I grew up in a time where virtually everyone would have self-hosted comment systems on their static self-hosted websites. Only they used to be called guestbooks then. Working on Schnack really reminded me of that magic time.

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Re:Moving from Disqus to Schnack by JeanMarcS on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @02:02PM (#15972639)

I wanted to do something like that for my static blog (and contact form for my company site), and couldn’ Find the time, so thanks to you for making this !

I’ll give it a try during holidays.

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Re:Moving from Disqus to Schnack by cgag on Monday December 18, 2017 @06:17PM (#15956342)

I already have a static blog and like 8 non static apps on my server. If I were to add comments I'd rather host a comment server than convert my blog to something other than static files.

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Re:Moving from Disqus to Schnack by detaro on Monday December 18, 2017 @06:13PM (#15956323)

Sure, I can see why you'd make that choice (just as I know people who never would touch Disqus or FB comments).

Doesn't mean others wouldn't throw up a comment system somewhere, in the knowledge that the most important part of their site (the content) isn't affected if it doesn't keep up and they exactly do not need to invest the time and energy to "go full DevOps" for that.

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