Using Giscus for commenting on this blog
I had removed disqus comments from my blog a few years back when I noticed the horrible privacy issues with Disqus.
But I always felt that I was missing out on some feedback I had received from visitors in the past, especially when I would benefit from correcting my mistakes.
This article from Chris Wilson resonated with me.
I wanted:
- Feedback
- Didn’t want to spend money on a low traffic, zero commercialized blog.
- Some friction for commenters by requiring identity to reduce comment spam.
- Relatively low privacy impact.
Github fits those requirements. Most developers already use Github to some extent for either their own source control or interacting with other software hosted there. I am aware of the criticism of Github and I use Gitea at home myself (big fan). But what is important to me is to reduce 1000 cuts of cloud subscription for hosting it myself.
So, like Chris, I decided to install giscus for comments on this website. Feel free to use the comments for this post to test out how it works - I am ok with unrelated comments for this post as long as it is no spam/promotion of any kind.