> How do you handle comments in a "static blog"?

The comment form is implemented as a server-side program using Common Lisp and Hunchentoot. So this is the only part of the website that is not static. The server-side program accepts each comment and writes to a text file for manual review. Then I review the comments and add them to my blog.

In the end, the comments live like normal content files in my source code directory just like the other blog posts and HTML pages do. My static site generator renders the comment pages along with the rest of the website. So in effect, my static site generator also has a static comment pages generator within it.