Mailing lists are still the superior format.
The barrier to entry is a feature and not a bug.
I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse
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Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
False equivalence. That the creators of various PHP blogging platforms sucked at security does not invalidate the poster's point that a self-hosted CMS with a simple comment system is indeed much simpler and easier to reason about.
I suppose it's rather the "without maintenance" part. Had everyone updated their WordPress sites the problem would've been much less.
The wordpress core can be kept up to date but the vulnerabilities from plugins, relying on fixes and updating plugins i think was more the problem than the core.
In the 2010s if you left a wordpress blog unattended even with the official default filter plugin it would fill with spam comments. I dont know if thats still a problem.
Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse
#33Try using a Bluesky-based solution so that everyone owns the content?
I made Bluniversal Comments partly for this, but there are other Bluesky-based solutions out there if you prefer.
Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse
#34Utterances: https://utteranc.es/
Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse
#35I use Hyvor Talk - https://talk.hyvor.com - for ad-free and privacy respecting commenting on my blog. I really wanted something that I can just use as a service, not host anything myself. But it's quite expensive.
If I where to ditch it to save the money, I'd look into integrating Mastodon into the page, I saw somewhere that they used Mastodon as their comment system (it's basically a thread on Mastodon that is embedded in the blog page).
Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse
#36I ditched Disqus for the exact same reason, too many ads Then I built an alternative using free Cloudflare Worker https://github.com/est/req4cmt It's a simple service that transform comment POST form data to JSON, append to a .jsonl file, then do a `git push` It renders comments by `git fetch` from a .jsonl file from a remote repo, or simply via raw.githubusercontent.com if your repo was hosted by Github. The advanta…
The issue with that approach is risk.
You now have a direct way for users to insert data into your repo, which can include illegal things. And if you're required to delete it later, you'll be forced to edit your git history.
But if everyone behaves, it's a great solution
Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse
#37Utterances: https://utteranc.es/
> No lock-in. All data stored in GitHub issues.
No lock-in, except for GitHub, I suppose.
Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse
#38Utterances: https://utteranc.es/
Came here to recommend that as well.
Or just leave it. Nobody needs to comment on blog posts, really. :D
Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse
#39I just can't be bothered to have comments on my site. It adds nothing but headaches. Cross-posting articles to HN or Reddit for comments is a much nicer way, I think.
Yea, it's what modern blogs do. The discussions happen on social media and platforms where they are shared
Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse
#40I ditched Disqus for the exact same reason, too many ads Then I built an alternative using free Cloudflare Worker https://github.com/est/req4cmt It's a simple service that transform comment POST form data to JSON, append to a .jsonl file, then do a `git push` It renders comments by `git fetch` from a .jsonl file from a remote repo, or simply via raw.githubusercontent.com if your repo was hosted by Github. The advanta…
The issue with that approach is risk. You now have a direct way for users to insert data into your repo, which can include illegal things. And if you're required to delete it later, you'll be forced to edit your git history. But if everyone behaves, it's a great solution
and the wasted CPU and memory involved. Git is by no means a good design for a comment-system, it is overcomplicating it in ways previously unimaginable.