rednafi.com VS giscus

I don’t like having comments on my blog. I write the posts out of my own necessity and don’t want strangers to stomp on them.

Sometimes if someone finds something useful, they appear at the front page of hackernews and people can discuss it there.

That being said, I never understood the appeal of medium or substack. I have a simple site built with hugo and posting new contents is as easy as doing it on any of those platforms.

Also, people care a wee bit too much about the audience. If your stuff is useful or interesting, people will find it.

site: https://rednafi.com

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.