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>>g0xA52+(OP)
Interesting article! I always enjoy reading how people build and maintain their independent personal websites. This post starts with the "Comment System Problem" and mentions four possible solutions, but I think there's a fifth that has worked well for me.

After spending too much time fiddling with third-party comment systems, I ended up building my own [1]. It's pretty barebones, just does what I need, and nothing more.

Each comment is written to a text file for manual review, so I don't have to worry about spam, cross-site scripting, or irrelevant comments. I usually check them on weekends and add them to my blog.

Comments are stored as plain HTML files, and my static site generator [2] builds the site along with the comment pages [3]. So in a way, it's also a static comment pages generator.

This setup doesn't meet the five attributes (no infra, rich content, real identity, etc.) in the second section of the article, so it wouldn't suit the author's needs, but it has worked quite well for me. I've been using it for at least four years (perhaps much longer, since my old PHP website did something similar), and I've been quite happy with it.

[1] https://github.com/susam/susam.net/blob/main/form.lisp

[2] https://github.com/susam/susam.net/blob/main/site.lisp

[3] https://susam.net/comments/

>>susam+lv
Taking comments via a (n email) form, which you then manually add under the article's html/markdown is nice.

>>mighmi+HA
That's what I do, except I skip the form and just provide my email address at the bottom of each post.