Ask HN: What Disqus replacement should I use on my personal blog?

Posted by Jerard_Victor on Thursday February 25, 2021 @11:39AM
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Re:Ask HN: What Disqus replacement should I use on my person... by acemarke on Thursday February 25, 2021 @11:59AM (#26265001)

I recently switched from Disqus to Utterances, which uses a Github repo's issues as the source of comments:

I used a Python export and conversion script that I found at https://pawamoy.github.io/posts/migrate-disqus-comments-to-u... , and made a couple updates to it (and then commented on that post with my changes).

Pretty happy with it so far.

Here's a couple of my posts that show Utterances in action, one that has a lot of the migrated comments, and one with mostly new comments:

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Re:Ask HN: What Disqus replacement should I use on my person... by Jerard_Victor on Thursday February 25, 2021 @02:44PM (#26267280)

does it support nested comments?

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Re:Ask HN: What Disqus replacement should I use on my person... by acemarke on Thursday February 25, 2021 @03:25PM (#26267801)

No, because Github Issues are single-threaded.

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Re:Ask HN: What Disqus replacement should I use on my person... by darekkay on Friday February 26, 2021 @02:35PM (#26278879)

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Re:Ask HN: What Disqus replacement should I use on my person... by codegeek on Thursday February 25, 2021 @02:03PM (#26266723)

I have seen 2 that look interesting:

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Re:Ask HN: What Disqus replacement should I use on my person... by Jerard_Victor on Thursday February 25, 2021 @02:44PM (#26267288)

commento looks good, but it has some styling issues. 2nd option I havent' seen yet

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Re:Ask HN: What Disqus replacement should I use on my person... by blackcats on Thursday February 25, 2021 @03:33PM (#26267890)

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