I have my email on my personal site and when an article reaches the frontpage on HN I usually get some emails related to the post.
I don’t want my website to be a distribution channel. The last thing I want is to be managing visitors to my home.
I’ll let the distributors do their thing to pass my content around and I’ll own/manage my own content on my homepage.
I paid for stats for a while, but it was depressingly low. But I'm chugging along for myself, like a public notebook.
https://untested.sonnet.io/Instead+or+writing+a+comment%2C+w...
Substack is neat, but I'd prefer a nice, self-hosted alternative.
(or POSSE - "Publish (on your) Own Site, SyndicateElsewhere").
Substack does look better, but not sure if it's sustainable
I (somewhat) recently saw a post[1] from an author I like that sent me down the rabbit hole and it seems like Disqus also tends to inject ad scripts into the websites that host it (which, honestly, makes some business sense because they are a for-profit and not a lot of people are using their non-free plans).
In that same article, it was also mentioned in an edit that Giscus[2] seems like a viable solution. In my eyes, it really looks like it's the best client-side comment library out there and when I start my blog I'll try to use it for comments.
[1]: https://www.supergoodcode.com/adventures-in-linking/#first
[2]: https://giscus.app/
But my purpose of writing is the same as the authors, to find like minded people and have a discussion with them. It’s kind of cure for intellectual loneliness.
[1] https://coredumped.dev/