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Turned off Disqus on my blog a couple of years ago (https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2018/turning-off-blog-comments/ https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2018/turning-off

• kevincox 6y ago
  I also recently turned it off. I had gotten a couple of comments in the past but my blog is quite low-traffic. Mostly a place for me to practice writing (and occasionally vent). However I did like the simplicity of Disqus. I tried looking around for something similar with the following requirements: - No third party code on my domain. - Minimal code to write myself. Most of these tools work using an iframe, so the code that they run on your domain is minimal but they end up loading as a script that injects the iframe. AFAICT the primary reason for this is is so that they can adjust the height of the iframe automatically. In some cases I could pull a pinned version of that API from NPM or similar however it would be nice if there was a truly minimal snippet that I could use. It also makes me wonder, if iframes could have a dynamic height would this ecosystem flourish? In the end I just added links at the bottom of each post to search for mentions on Reddit/Twitter and another link to share the post there. I then use a WebMentions bridge to collect responses. Right now I haven't published the code that displays WebMentions automatically but I might do that in the future.