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Use disqus instead of google groups for support discussion forum #29

Open envirover opened 5 years ago

envirover commented 5 years ago

Use disqus in both docs and support forum.

VincentTam commented 5 years ago

Disqus has a plethora of downsides.

Here're some articles about replacing Disqus.

Nonetheless, none of them mentioned static comments, whose upsides include:

  1. total ownership of comments stored as site data
  2. SEO-friendly
  3. quicker load time, since data files are converted into HTML tags by static site generator

Several solutions:

Staticman: documentation outdated, please view its GitHub page for up to date info. You may even consider self-hosting the Node.JS app for greater (anti-spam) control. 1.JAMStack

  1. Netlify comments
  2. Jekyll AWS comments

P.S. I've built @staticmanlab.