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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

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Post by bbor » 

  I became “blind” to what the web is really like for most users. I’ve tried to keep this blog minimalist - a clean place to find answers. Those ads not only ruin that experience; they trample privacy too
I’ve said it once, I’ll say it a thousand times: the free and open internet died decades ago and is being propped up in Google’s yard as a scarecrow against public outrage. Online display advertising is a scam at best — it has to be terrible, because it’s just not very effective otherwise.

  If you have any recommendations for alternative commenting systems (especially those that respect privacy or are self-hosted), I’d love to hear them!
I’ve heard great things about ATProto comments (aka “comments through BlueSky”), tho that’s obviously more setup. But this might not be the guy for it; pretty funny to see “hit me up on X” right next to calls for privacy, self-hosting, and authorial-control…

Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse

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Post by heresie-dabord »

npodbielski wrote: post #52
xenator wrote: post #18

I blocked Disqus locally on my computer via /etc/hosts many years ago. Reason is very simply. Because comments as genre is almost useless.

You are putting comments on HN right now. i guess not entirelly useless then?

> putting comments on HN [...] not entirelly useless then?

Comment systems are useful/effective when someone is paying the full cost of moderation.

Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse

#83

Post by thiht »

aubanel wrote: post #51

Giscus is a cool comments management solution vis Github: It lets users auth through Github then posts comments as discussions under your repo. We use it here for instance: https://predibench.com/models

I like giscus too, it’s pretty neat. It makes a lot of sense for tech blogs since the audience likely already has a GitHub account. And the comments being hosted in discussions makes them easy to backup in case you want to roll your own comment system someday.

Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse

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Post by echelon »

delirehberi wrote: post #86

I stopped to use disqus a long time ago. Instead I am using hugo2nostr to publish my blog post on nostr network. So, all nostr users can comment in their clients. https://github.com/delirehberi/hugo2nostr

How big is the nostr network? Is it peer to peer instead of federated?

Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse

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Post by contravariant »

dspillett wrote: post #74
huijzer wrote: post #30

I 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.

I like https://github.com/tessalt/echo-chamber-js - it is basically a global shadow-ban for everyone who comments…

Can't wait for the time when everyone is running an LLM on their phone so you can ask them to write their own rebuttals as well.

Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse

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Post by drdrek »

dspillett wrote: post #74
huijzer wrote: post #30

I 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.

I like https://github.com/tessalt/echo-chamber-js - it is basically a global shadow-ban for everyone who comments…

I Love this!

Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse

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Post by squeedles »

abdullahkhwaja wrote: post #53

I have an email address for comments at the bottom of my blog posts. If they can write me an email and it's something that contributes to the discussion, I'll include it in a comments section at the bottom of the post. For bigger discussions, cross-post to social is the way to go.

That's exactly how periodicals worked for a hundred years. A letter to the editor that is published in the next edition. That's how I always mentally viewed blogs and expected most niche sites to eventually do that. In fact, a local "neat things" blog was successfully doing that for quite a while.
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