Lets Comment

May 12, 2022

Hugo ships with support for Disqus, a third-party service that provides comment and community capabilities to websites via JavaScript. But Disqus generates a shit load of page requests and heavy contents… which even with the benefits that come with having Disqus in place. People just want something that can be used to post a comment, that is.

That’s why I choose a Disqus alternative - Utterances. Utterances is a lightweight comments widget built on Github issues. Use Github issues for blog comments, wiki pages and more!

• Open source. 🙌

• No tracking, no ads, always free. 📡🚫

• No lock-in. All data stored in GitHub issues. 🔓

• Styled with Primer, the css toolkit that powers GitHub. 💅

• Lightweight. Vanilla TypeScript. No font downloads, JavaScript frameworks or polyfills for evergreen browsers. 🐦🌲

All these above lines are stolen from Utterances home page!

Setting up Utterances is quite simple, just follow the home page instruction and you will get what you want.

So, let’s post some comments here.