Disqus, a dark commenting system

Re:Disqus, a dark commenting system by geek_at on Friday February 05, 2021 @04:07AM (#26034433)

not true, I have started a blog and hosted it on blogspot at first but wasn't satisfied with the style in general and the lack of customization so I built my own in bootstrap + php and hosted it on a 5€/month Server. No tracking, no ads, no external libraries, no referral links, no monetization.

After switching to my own I re-wrote one of the articles of my old blogspot posts (word for word) and because my custom solution was so much easier on the eye, the post picked up and I got TV and Radio interview requests, etc.

Even reddit and hn hugs and thousands of concurrent users didn't bring it down.

You don't need Medium, you need to write stuff that people are interested in reading.

https://blog.haschek.at

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Re:Disqus, a dark commenting system by duckmysick on Friday February 05, 2021 @07:24AM (#26035536)

Can't a person write interesting stuff on Medium/Blogspot/Wordpress? Telling a person, who wants to blog about fruit preserves, to learn php and selfhost is a bit too much.

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Re:Disqus, a dark commenting system by tal8d on Friday February 05, 2021 @04:33AM (#26034575)

heh, I had a little project hosted on an nslu2 wedged between the water heater and the wall of my utility closet. Never had a problem, even after several major sites picked up on it the same day, because responding to get requests for static files isn't hard. Thankfully, most sites only become hard to self host after they start doing annoying things - like dynamically generating oversized embedded junk.

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Re:Disqus, a dark commenting system by alexgmcm on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @11:51AM (#26079659)

Wow, your blog is beautiful!

I had used Hugo before, but I'm learning some Full Stack dev now (I work in Data Science, so it isn't my main work) and making a blog could be a good exercise.

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