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While I'm a big fan of static site generators the reason for me not to use one for blogging is the trouble when you want to have comments without an additional third party service.

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I very much dislike Javascript commenting, but you don't have to use a third party service if you host the comments yourself. Isso[0] for example can do this.

[0] https://posativ.org/isso/

If you use Jekyll, there's https://staticman.net/. An open-source solution for static comments.

This requires i give some service push access to the repository holding my website. This seems to remove one of the major advantages of static websites -- no ability to hack into a dynamic webpage and corrupt my website.

How much you would be willing to pay for a setup with built-in commenting?

(PS: I'm creating pragma.build, a web publishing platform with static page generation)

I too think that and that was one of the reasons I moved to Ghost. But I'm a broke and cheap student who doesn't pay for a VPS or hosting provider currently so I have temporarily (until I join a job in July) moved back to a simple Jekyll website with Discourse for comments.

I am confused, I thought for Ghost you have to set up comments yourself as well: https://www.ghostforbeginners.com/how-to-enable-comments-on-...

I have been running Ghost for free on OpenShift but haven't set up comments. I would recommend it but I don't think OpenShift are taking on new accounts for the v2 platform where Ghost is available -- they are transitioning to "next gen" and I haven't checked if they have Ghost on that.

Oh, sorry for being unclear. Being a dynamic website, I rolled my own simple comment system (mainly to learn, I eventually replaced it with Discourse).

Thanks for recommending OpenShift. I'll be getting my first paycheck in July and will move to a hosting provider that provides best value.

Ah I see, has Discourse improved as a comment system or is it still quite hard to set up?

I was mainly recommending OpenShift because it's free but I don't know if the setup I have now is still available.

people still make the mistake of reading internet comments?

-takes out tongue from cheek ;)

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