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Isn’t the main draw of medium the discussion? Static sites by their nature aren’t built for discussion considering the lack of a real database. Of course you co
by hobbescotch 8y ago
Isn’t the main draw of medium the discussion? Static sites by their nature aren’t built for discussion considering the lack of a real database. Of course you could add a third party commenting system like discus, but then you relying on a third party service for comments and all the privacy and support concerns that come from that.
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- meritt 8y agoTIL that Medium posts have a discussion section.
- dqpb 8y agoI prefer discussions to be decoupled from content - e.g. hacker news.
- dmitriid 8y agoEven though it’s the draw, Medium has gone out of its way to make discussions a horrible experience: hiding them, breaking mouse interactions, promoting discussions out of context, losing scroll positions etc.
- opencl 8y agoI think an extremely tiny minority of readers of most blogs ever leave comments. IMO the best solution is to host your actual articles on a static site and host the discussion elsewhere with a link at the bottom of the page. Host your own forum, make a subreddit, submit links to HN, whatever.