Intro Link to heading

I’ve had this blog for around one and a half years, and while it is true that I keep abandoning it for months at a time, I think I should still try to make it as good as possible. According to Cloudflare, I get around 70 unique visitors a day. I’m almost 100% certain that these are all bots, but there is a slim chance that some of you reading this are in fact human. Because of that, I figured that now would be a good time to add comments to my blog.

Finding commenting solutions Link to heading

I had, in the end, basically one constraint for whatever software I used to make comments. I wanted my commenting solution to be free. I also wanted it to be more private, but I was willing to sacrifice my integrity for the sake of my money¹.

I looked at a few options for adding comments to my blog:

1. Commento

This one looked pretty nice, but then I realized that it didn’t have a free tier. I’m completely fine with the idea that people pay for services online, but I’ve never really caught on to the idea of me paying for services online. As such, I ruled this one out.

2. Disqus

To be completely honest, I didn’t really look too much at this one. I heard that it had some privacy issues and figured I could find something better

3. Giscus

After seeing this one, I immediately decided it was the best option for me. It was relatively easy² to implement, and seems to work. I just pasted it in to the template for it in the theme I’m using, and it worked, which was nice. I had some issues with styling it, but that was all my own fault³.