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danguslast Sunday at 3:03 PM2 repliesview on HN

Shoehorn basic interactivity like comments?

https://gohugo.io/content-management/comments/

This includes a giant list of open source commenting systems.

I really don’t understand why people commonly say static site generators are a good candidate for building your own when there are a good selection of popular, stable options.

The only thing I don’t like about Hugo is the experience of using other people’s themes.


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cthorlast Sunday at 3:28 PM

https://cthor.me/SSG

Getting someone else's SSG to do exactly what you want (and nothing more) takes longer than just building it yourself. Juice isn't worth the squeeze.

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1domlast Sunday at 4:07 PM

Pretty much every single option there involved letting a 3rd party collect and own the comments.

If you're fine for 3rd parties to own all your comments and content, why even take on the extra effort of hosting or managing or building your own website? That's basically what social media is for.

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