I’ve been down that rabbit hole myself. My blog is still running Jekyll but my comments are now on a self-hosted install of Commento. It works pretty well. For

I’ve been down that rabbit hole myself. My blog is still running Jekyll but my comments are now on a self-hosted install of Commento. It works pretty well. For me the main feature is that it’s not Disqus, but another nice benefit is that comments support Markdown now!