giscus VS mataroa

That project also has Github issues and discussions pages to ask questions and get help.

When creating my blog-centric personal portfolio, I had a goal of launching it as soon as possible. However, considering including a comment feature, the implementation process could be time-consuming. That's when I started looking for a solution that was easy to set up yet provided essential commenting functionalities. It was during this search that I stumbled upon Giscus.

But now, a new fellow named giscus commenting system has entered the town, it's basically powered by github. Since I already host my blog on github pages, this should be a natural choice for me, right? Many bloggers seem to be migrating to this new system and I might too soon. The downsides however are as follows:

Get Giscus here.

Supports Giscus - a comments system powerd by Github Discussions.

I've encountered https://github.com/utterance/utterances, which relies on github issues for providing a blog comments system of a sort.

Alternatively there's https://github.com/giscus/giscus, which instead uses github discussions.

Haven't used either so can't comment (heh) on their "performance".

There's also a recent similar tool called https://github.com/giscus/giscus that uses Github Discussions as the backing system, rather than Issues.

I love Mataroa: https://mataroa.blog

I jumped from WordPress to Mataroa and I'm also using Jekyll, Hugo, Zola, and Obsidian to blog.

There are a lot of great things about Mataroa that I love. I've blogged about Mataroa: https://pivic.blog/blog/mataroa/

Same for me, too.

I honestly love https://mataroa.blog it ended my paralysis for searching a blog platform, and every page is bog standard HTML. It accepts Markdown, plus it has its own anonymous analytics, so it's nice.

git clone https://github.com/mataroa-blog/mataroa.git

https://blog.bayindirh.io

It's a semi-regular, assorted blog about my adventures and experiences in life. Generally semi-focused on minimalism, computers and life in general.

It's powered by https://mataroa.blog/, which is very minimal and a joy to use.

I'm using Mataroa[0] as my blogging platform and it comes with its own analytics. It's very simple, and gives me the following:

- Read counts per post, for the last 30 days.

- How many RSS pulls, for the last 30 days.

- How many site visits, for the last 30 days.

Nothing more, nothing less. I'm pretty happy with them, and have no intention to change it.

[0]: https://mataroa.blog

Already in use.

Until this is fixed, anyone would be much better off going for Bear Blog [2] or Mataroa [3].

[1]: https://nicheless.blog/post/learn-one-thing-well

[2]: https://bearblog.dev/

[3]: https://mataroa.blog/

https://smol.pub and https://mataroa.blog are also nice examples. I host my blog in Mataroa, and love the experience so far.