On: Replacing Disqus with GitHub Comments

[ploggingdev]

> Why not stand up a Discourse instance

Worth noting that hackers who use workarounds like this are doing it for the fun and since it looks like an unmonetized personal blog, OP presumably would prefer not having a monthly bill for servers.

For any serious project, I agree that discourse is a great option or maybe a custom built comments solution depending on the use case.

[MichaelMoser123 → ploggingdev]

yes, but the author is paying for his own dns name and hosting, so hosting his own discussions would be less of a problem for him.

Still he is right, the price for a free service is to be tracked to the right, left and center...

[manquer → MichaelMoser123]

That's a bit ironical.. GitHub is another free service after all, and they do have a careers business which essentially trades on your public profile

[gjtorikian → manquer]

That's opt in.