As to maintain an echo-system of communication 📱, I thought of adding a comment system to the website. Ofcourse, I faced few challenges ❗💢.
Free or Not?
The website is not popular and there was no need to add extra bill 🧾, so I thought of using an open-source comment system. While searching 🔎 I found this website and a comparison of many of them open-source-comments, they were arranged in a table by Github stars initially and we can change that depending on the available table headers.
I tried to implement Isso, Remark42 📑 and I think Cusdis 🗨 too 🤹. Thaaat, didn’t work 🏚. As the python 🐍, Docker 🚢 or the UI design (as for Cusdis, it’s comment section was with scroller bar and it was short, why? anyway) and couldn’t go with the earlier ones because of the limitation of the shared web hosting service that I had registered for. I didn’t want to upgrade to VPS 🖥 (Virtual Private Server) as it is a little bit higher in price 💸.
Hugo Comments List
After that I just wandered if there are any comment systems for Hugo and that was when I went to Comments|Hugo section and saw the list below.
I tried Cactus Comments 🌵 as you can guess, I faced few other challenges with it too (I guess a noob here needs some practice 🤡 😂).
Giscus
Anyway, lastly I thought about using Giscus 🔷 that is using Github Discusstion to benefit on and utilize their api with it. Finally, it wooorked 🌟🤩.
What a journey. 😅 lol