--- title: About Comments author: Collin J. Doering date: Jul 30, 2015 description: The current state of comments on blog.rekahsoft.ca tags: general --- Currently as some may have noticed, the "See Comments" link under each individual blog post does nothing. This is because I have been struggling to find a good solution to handle comments. Of course many people choose to use Disqus. Unfortunately due to the proprietary nature of Disqus, I refuse to use it (See [this](http://web.archive.org/web/20150323224820/http://blog.irukado.org/2013/12/disqus-considered-harmful/)). There are some open source solutions including: [Isso](http://posativ.org/isso/) ~ - Written in Python. - Supports modern browsers (IE10+, Firefox, Chrome, ...) [Juvia](https://github.com/phusion/juvia) ~ - Written in Ruby - Not maintained There are quite a few others, though I haven't spent much time investigating them as many of them are incomplete or unmaintained. See for a decent discussion of "Disqus Alternatives". I've tried Isso but because my blog is a Single Page Application (SPA) where pages can be addressed directly or using a anchor url. For example, this post can be reached via [/#/posts/about-comments.html]() or [/posts/about-comments.html](). Forgive my vague explanation, its been a few months since I last played with Isso. Its too bad I couldn't get it to function because from all the open source options, it seems to be the most mature solution. Another option that came to mind is to use a sub-reddit for my blog and post new threads for each blog post as a way for people to submit comments. I don't like this as the content would then not be hosted on my servers and it would require users to create a account on Reddit. Not to mention the process wouldn't be simple to automate so I'd have to go create a new reddit thread in my sub-reddit every time I submitted a new post. The last option I've considered is just foregoing comments all together. Personally, I rarely leave comments on blogs and if I'm interested in getting a hold of someone I generally prefer to use email. What do you think? Feel free to email me at with any comments and/or suggestions. Anyways, over the next while I hope to find a solution, but for the time being use email or IRC if you wish to contact me.