Re:Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)
by TadasPaplauskas on Monday January 27, 2020 @07:04AM
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https://paplauskas.lt/ no js, no static site generator, all html and css written by hand. Blogging like this is so refreshing after coming home from a mile-high stack of dependencies at work :). The only part I haven't solved yet is having comments under posts in the same lean way.
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Re:Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)
by coldpie on Monday January 27, 2020 @07:17AM
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I use WordPress, which obviously has support for comments, and I've actually been thinking of turning them off. I get tens of thousands of spam comments every month (Akismet nukes 99.9999% of them) and the real comments I do get don't add a whole lot. I'm not sure they're worth the trouble. Perhaps just prominently feature your email address?
Re:Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)
by TadasPaplauskas on Monday January 27, 2020 @07:23AM
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> Perhaps just prominently feature your email address?
That's exactly what I'm doing right now :). Email address is not exactly as encouraging to reach out as a simple comment box, but I've had a hunch that the small possible upside is just not worth the hassle, and your experience seems to confirm that. Thanks!
+1 from me for only using an email address. I was using commento: https://commento.io/ which is quite small and can be imported via one line of java script.
However having comments encourages people to leave low-effort responses like "good article, thanks". Email-only provides a kind of filter for low-effort replies.