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

#1

Post by Jerard_Victor » Thu, Feb 25, 2021, 4:39 PM UTC

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

#2

Post by acemarke » Thu, Feb 25, 2021, 4:59 PM UTC

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

https://utteranc.es/

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:

- https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2020/05/blogged-answers-a-...

- https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2021/01/context-redux-diff...

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

#3

Post by codegeek » Thu, Feb 25, 2021, 7:03 PM UTC

I have seen 2 that look interesting:

https://commento.io/

https://www.remarkbox.com/

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

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Post by Jerard_Victor » Thu, Feb 25, 2021, 7:44 PM UTC

acemarke wrote: post #2

I recently switched from Disqus to Utterances, which uses a Github repo's issues as the source of comments: https://utteranc.es/ 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…

does it support nested comments?

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

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Post by Jerard_Victor » Thu, Feb 25, 2021, 7:44 PM UTC

codegeek wrote: post #3

I have seen 2 that look interesting: https://commento.io/ https://www.remarkbox.com/

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

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

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Post by acemarke » Thu, Feb 25, 2021, 8:25 PM UTC

Jerard_Victor wrote: post #4

acemarke wrote: post #2

I recently switched from Disqus to Utterances, which uses a Github repo's issues as the source of comments: https://utteranc.es/ 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…

does it support nested comments?

No, because Github Issues are single-threaded.

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

#7

Post by blackcats » Thu, Feb 25, 2021, 8:33 PM UTC

You can use static comments https://bsdnerds.org/comments-static-site/

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

#8

Post by darekkay » Fri, Feb 26, 2021, 7:35 PM UTC

There are quite a lot of options out there: https://darekkay.com/blog/static-site-comments/