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There's several comment integrations you can choose from https://ghost.org/integrations/community/ https://ghost.org/integrations/community/
by DavidDarnes 7y ago
There's several comment integrations you can choose from https://ghost.org/integrations/community/ https://ghost.org/integrations/community/
- bishalb 7y agoThat is exactly my point. With Ghost, I would have to resort to a third party service to have something so essential as a commenting system for a blog. Comments are a part of your blog's content and it is necessary to have your own control over it, as these third party providers can shut down or just ban your site for any reason(take Google Plus comments for instance which many blogs were using as a commenting platform for their blogs). Relying on a third party provider for comments should be a choice, not a compulsion.
- DavidDarnes 7y agoAren't comments a response to your blog content and not part of the content itself? Having the option to use a multitude of commenting services seems like lots of control surely? If you look at the various options being suggested in the comments here you'll see many of them don't come with comments out of the box. Jekyll, Gatsby, Hugo, 11ty all require you to use a third party service or roll your own.
- bishalb 7y agoI strongly believe that they are a part of the content, just not in the traditional sense. Many times I find more substance in the comments than in the main content. Sure it's great to have more control over which commenting system to choose, but would adding a native commenting diminish that control? Certainly not right? (If you check out ghost's forums, you will find many people asking for a native commenting system) Yes none of those static site generators support commenting, making them not very suitable for blogging(they dont even support searches). That is why I am not a proponent of static generators as a blogging platform.