There are a ton of free comment widgets available — I tried Disqus, Facebook, Livefyre for example. They all have huge disadvantages — privacy, page loading time, number of requests, limit functionality and useless logins to 3rd party systems. But there is a new(at least for me) idea to store comments in Github issues.
The benefits of this approach you get immediately:
- Tracking site visitors is reduced to zero. Github itself only sees requests from anonymous IPs.
- All comments are written in Markdown, with support for inline code, images, lists, and formatting.
- You can use Github’s notifications of responses; you don’t even need to go to this site to read comments and participate in the discussions.
Already exist a Github app for that purpose — utteranc.es (no advertizing, my personal recommendation). Check it out on my site — http://luminousmen.com
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