The obvious alternatives are to use a (dynamic) blog which supports commenting. Things like wordpress, ghost, etc will do the job. If you want to have a stati

The obvious alternatives are to use a (dynamic) blog which supports commenting. Things like wordpress, ghost, etc will do the job. If you want to have a static-blog you can look at self-hosting a commenting system though, I wrote one which uses javascript to fetch, display, and add comments easily enough. Styling is hard and you lose integration with facebook, etc, but its an option if you have time to tinker.