I’ve wanted comments here for a second, but this is a static site (GitHub pages) and I’ve always had some dealbreaker turnoff with every embeddable option I’ve looked into. I saw giscus recently and thought it looks pretty nice.

Anything you comment here will automatically open a discussion in my blog’s repo.

Pros

• This uses GitHub Discussions as a backend. A barrier to entry is necessary, but it’s not a hard one.
• Possible to self host if giscus needs to implement limits.
• Reasonable to soft migrate. Even if this blog switches to self hosting it looks like discussions from the repo can still be used as long as titles still match.
• Reasonable to hard migrate. Discussions can be queried with the GraphQL API.

Cons

• It does require a GitHub account. Sorry if you don’t like GitHub. I do understand, but it’s an ecosystem that I’m pretty well invested into at this point.
• The OAuth permissions screen looks gnarly. “Act on my behalf” is a terribly vague way to describe permissions. However, this can’t exceed the app permissions, which only include Read access to metadata and Read and write access to discussions, and only for this blog’s repo.