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I've started collecting different ways to include blog comments a few years ago [1]. After using Disqus for several years, I've removed the comments on my blog

• joveian 6y ago
  Nice list, thanks. The one other possibility that I personally like but is out of fasion these days is the mailing list. A private archive mailing list with moderate first comment seems like it should be fairly easy to maintain, although I haven't actually tried yet. This would best be combined with the manual method you mention and would likely mostly work when there is something beyond the blog itself drawing people to be interested in the discussion (or maybe sufficienly popular blogs it could work anyway). The benefits of that method as I see it are: discussion can more easily go beyond particular blog posts, the website can potentially be fully static, and (sometimes an advantage, sometimes disadvantage) only the more interested people (in either the blog or community depending on how it is described) will bother subscribing. Also, it makes it possible (once you have subscribers at least) to first write posts to the list and get some comments before revealing it to the world. The main disadvantage I see for someone who otherwise finds the other tradeoffs ok is that people are understandibly more reluctant to reveal their email these days and many people don't have a basic conception of what a discussion mailing list is so it would be a good idea to have a general FAQ that describes the basics and links to some free email providers.