I'm beginning to think that maybe I should ditch disqus from my blog with all the tracking issues, but I still want to keep commenting on my blog. So what are some alternatives?
Looking for the same thing. A while ago I researched and no good alternatives came up.
Most of what I found either didn't work at all or wouldn't allow anonymous comments.
I even thought about making one since it seems a market well underserved. But settled on Disqus for lack of time to dedicate to the project.
A good start point I would use is to start looking at WordPress. I think they got most of it right. It's simple, fast and allow anonymous comments. It's a shame I cannot use it as a standalone version or hosted by myself.
Looking at the same thing after seeing how the waterfall chart looks like in Chrome. Couldn't believe how much junk and in how many requests it's sending.
The obvious alternatives are to use a (dynamic) blog which supports commenting. Things like wordpress, ghost, etc will do the job.
If you want to have a static-blog you can look at self-hosting a commenting system though, I wrote one which uses javascript to fetch, display, and add comments easily enough. Styling is hard and you lose integration with facebook, etc, but its an option if you have time to tinker.
I'm also stuck with Disqus and want to switch for the same reason. Here are some ideas to get your own comment system running: StaticMan[0], Isso[1], Netlify GoTell[2]. This article[3] brings up some more ideas.
For my small blog with 1-2 comments a month I'm thinking about implementing a small form and include comments manually using front-matter options or a separate comments file. This would make the comments fully static which is big plus. Spam will obviously be the biggest problem, so something like Akismet is necessary.
Remarkbox[0] recently came up over on the discuss.bootstrapped.fm forums[1] and might suit your needs. I'm not affiliated in any way - your question just happened to jog my memory that I'd read about an alternative recently :)
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 348 ms ] threadMost of what I found either didn't work at all or wouldn't allow anonymous comments.
I even thought about making one since it seems a market well underserved. But settled on Disqus for lack of time to dedicate to the project.
A good start point I would use is to start looking at WordPress. I think they got most of it right. It's simple, fast and allow anonymous comments. It's a shame I cannot use it as a standalone version or hosted by myself.
(Jeff Atwood is a co-founder of it and it's open source.)
If you want to have a static-blog you can look at self-hosting a commenting system though, I wrote one which uses javascript to fetch, display, and add comments easily enough. Styling is hard and you lose integration with facebook, etc, but its an option if you have time to tinker.
For my small blog with 1-2 comments a month I'm thinking about implementing a small form and include comments manually using front-matter options or a separate comments file. This would make the comments fully static which is big plus. Spam will obviously be the biggest problem, so something like Akismet is necessary.
[0] https://staticman.net/
[1] https://posativ.org/isso/
[2] https://github.com/netlify/gotell
[3] https://mademistakes.com/articles/jekyll-static-comments/
[0] https://www.remarkbox.com/
[1] http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/t/remarkbox-is-the-disqus-alt...