New comment system

[lazywinadmin]

Type

• Issue
• Feature
• Change

Description

Currently the website is using Disqus to manage the Comments (which is an external system)

I'd like to bring the comment closer to the blog content.
There are few options available to me:

• Using Static files and PR to add new comments (staticman/Azure Function)
• Using Github Issues API (utterances)

Static files

Taking the static file approach is cool but there are some limitations to solution like StaticMan: No notification built-in, no conversation support,... (see here if you want to add it to your blog here).

See also:

• https://vincenttam.gitlab.io/post/2018-09-16-staticman-powered-gitlab-pages/2/
• https://www.datascienceblog.net/post/other/staticman_comments/

Another option would be to use Azure Function, see: https://damieng.com/blog/2018/05/28/wordpress-to-jekyll-comments but it seems a bit complicated to put in place (escuse my novice knowledge)

Pros:

• Live with the code
• Spam can be filtered out using ReCaptcha
• Can be exported and manipulated easily

Cons:

• No notification, would need to register to mailgun (limit of 10k mails)
• No conversation

Github issues api

Using Github issues as comment system seems pretty simple with my current blog theme. Different frameworks exists:

• https://github.com/utterance/utterances
• https://github.com/imsun/gitment

Pros:

• No spam
• integrated with Github
• Notifications take care of
• conversation support
• Can be exported via API

Cons:

• Another dependency
• Must have a github account to comment (pros?)

[lazywinadmin]

Implemented and configured in #11

[lazywinadmin]

https://asp.net-hacker.rocks/2018/11/19/github-comments.html
utterance/utterances#7
JuergenGutsch/blog#110

[lazywinadmin]

Utterances looks very nice but does not support importing historical comments

[JuergenGutsch]

This is why I created a small Disqus to GitHub migration tool: https://github.com/JuergenGutsch/disqus-to-github-issues

[lazywinadmin]

Thanks @JuergenGutsch !! A bit too late hehe 😄 I actually went through the same process and wrote a tool in PowerShell script

[lazywinadmin]

This was implemented. I'm using Github issues with Utterances.
See related blogpost: https://lazywinadmin.com/2019/04/moving_blog_comments.html