Comments Are Back
Moving to a static website generator like Hugo from a CMS tool like Wordpress does come at the cost of losing built in features like comments. Hugo provides support for several third party providers for comments.
After looking at a few, I decided to go with Disqus. Disqus provides for a free option. Ad supported of course, the saying “nothing in life is free” is not more apparent than on the Internet. This blog is a hobby for now so a few ads is a small price to pay.
The process to set up Disqus was straightforward. After the initial account set up, you add a site giving a shortname and the site url. The set up on hugo with the Ananke theme simply required adding an entry to config.toml.
disqusShortname = 'welovelsu'
After adding the config entry, hugo took care of the rest. Please drop a comment and let me know what you think.