Ask HN: Are 'Comments' section in personal websites/blogs useful?

Posted by sahilarora535 on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @01:42PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hi HN, While trying to add a feature enabling comments on my website, I was wondering whether it's useful to have comments by strangers on your posts, and what do you think? Does your blog/website have comments section at the end, and if yes, how has that served you or your blog? If not, why do you think it's not worth it?

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Re:Ask HN: Are 'Comments' section in personal websites/blogs... by JohnFen on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @02:40PM (#45583337)

It depends on the blog. Comments are a critical part of mine -- as with HN, the value is in the conversations among readers. But that's not universal. There are lots of blogs where that isn't the focus, and commenters aren't so important.

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Re:Ask HN: Are 'Comments' section in personal websites/blogs... by rolph on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @02:31PM (#45583247)

troll abuse, ad spam, malspam, soc.eng, bot abuse, CnC semaphores, out of band file transfers, oh and some people attempting to communicate re: blog content.

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Re:Ask HN: Are 'Comments' section in personal websites/blogs... by chistev on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @02:02PM (#45582934)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45423268

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Re:Ask HN: Are 'Comments' section in personal websites/blogs... by fsflover on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @02:06PM (#45582981)