Blog comments are great when you have a high readership, and lot of quality comments. Otherwise, you just have a lot of ongoing maintenance. Older posts look r

Blog comments are great when you have a high readership, and lot of quality comments. Otherwise, you just have a lot of ongoing maintenance. Older posts look really old with a few early comments, and then gaps. If you want to rewrite part of a post, you’re sort of stuck with those parts referenced by comments. If it’s so tricky, and your blog is a hobby/side project, it’s just logical to have blogs on the site you control, and discussion in the wild where network effects can boost it. Then leave open channels for people to contact you personally, if you want further engagement. The medium seems to have settled into these features for your average blogger.