Hey hey, I have a static hugo web site online, for me personally, on a free netlify account. It’s extremely low traffic and currently the only way to interact with me via that site is to submit a contact form.
I am considering my options for making the site more interactive. I am concerned about the cost mostly - I have no budget or maybe could spend a very small amount - and the privacy of the data people might provide.
I’ve done some searching and see the options out there – disqus has no privacy, commentbox.io seems OK – but I am curious how you all solve this / what you recommend for someone with my very low-end requirements. Thanks for sharing what works for you.
If you want to make your site more interactive but not necessarily with comments, look at the Open Heart protocol.
It’s a cool implementation where people can literally hit like on your writings whether they’re reading your site in the browser or within their RSS feed readers.
https://openheart.fyi/
Oh I like that! Thanks for the idea.