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Re:Medium is a poor choice for blogging by fyfy18 on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @10:05AM (#18441449)
Disqus is really bad in terms of privacy of users [0] (that article was from 2014, now I guess it's on par with most other sites).

I'm not really sure what the answer is as if it's going to work on a static site, the comments need some sort of backend. Most people aren't going to host it themselves, so that leads to these issues, as nobody will pay for a commenting system.

[0] https://chrislema.com/killed-disqus-commenting/

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Re:Medium is a poor choice for blogging by KajMagnus on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @11:15AM (#18442059)
> nobody will pay for a commenting system

What if it costs $0 per year, if one gets < 10 comments and < 10 000 page views? And otherwise $10 per year? Or something like that. What do you think about that?

(I'm developing a no-tracking and no-ads commenting system, + open source, SaaS hosting, link in my profile.)

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