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Don Williamson
Personal blog · donw.ioprogramminggames
Don Williamson's personal blog at donw.io covers programming and games. Since 2016, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Replacing Disqus with GitHub Comments”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Don Williamson's posts on replacing Disqus with GitHub issues as a comment system, and on Disqus privacy and tracking concerns. Most links cite the posts as sources.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Don Williamson, Game Technology and GPU Driver Programmer
Most-linked posts?
- Replacing Disqus with GitHub Comments9 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2017-04-21
What Hacker News says?
Not sure if the requests are faking clicks or sending tracking information. We had similar incidents before where the requests are for analytics firms to track you: http://donw.io/post/github-comments/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14170041
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on “Insane state of today's advertising part 3”Submitted Replacing Disqus with GitHub Comments as a story · 534 points
HN discussionI've just switched from using Disqus to this type of setup. I create a GH issue for each post, and then pull comments using the Github API. This article has a great overview of how it can work: http://donw.io/post/github-comments/
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on “Disqus, a dark commenting system”Submitted Fast, Constant-Time Sphere Indexing as a story · 117 points
HN discussionBuilt Commento, a privacy-focused alternative to Disqus: https://github.com/adtac/commento Right now, it exists as a Github project that you can self-host, but I'll soon offer it as a paid service if you don't want to host and maintain servers on your own. (And maybe even apply to YC, who knows :)) It started out with me reading a blog post [1] and thinking "I can write Disqus tonight". And that's how it began; I ha…
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on “Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?”Submitted Reflection in C++ as a story · 78 points
HN discussionRelated discussion: Replacing Disqus with GitHub Comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14170041 Recommended alternatives to Commento (Golang): · https://posativ.org/isso/ (Python) · https://github.com/jimpick/lambda-comments (Node.js, AWS) Github-based alternatives: · https://staticman.net for Github comments · Github Issues for comments ( http://donw.io/post/github-comments/ ) > https://github.com/shurcoo…
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on “Show HN: Commento: Lightweight, open source, tracking-free alternative to Disqus”Submitted Replacing Disqus with GitHub Comments as a story · 11 points
HN discussion>Disqus gives these marketers the ability to target users based on their interests. You can infer quite a bit about people simply based on which sites they comment on, after all. So we can expect more targeted ads in Disqus embeds from mining user patterns. The platform is a already a mess; between making 105 network requests to 20+ domains associated with tracking, malware, ad platforms, and shady fingerprinting se…
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on “Zeta Global acquires Disqus (YC S07)”Submitted Replacing Disqus with GitHub Comments as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMostly because of privacy and performance issues [0][1]. Additionally, you may not want to force your readers to register to Disqus to leave a comment (you can post as a guest without an account, but this is quite hidden). [0] - https://notes.ayushsharma.in/2017/09/im-killing-disqus-comme... [1] - http://donw.io/post/github-comments/
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on “Isso – a commenting server similar to Disqus”Great to see a response from Disqus here :) The big problem most people have with Disqus are privacy and performance issues [0][1]. Of course, a fully free service at this scale often comes at such a price. Hacking a load-comments-button myself was really easy, but I'm sure many more people would use it if you provided it out of the box. [0] - https://notes.ayushsharma.in/2017/09/im-killing-disqus-comme... [1] - htt…
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on “Isso – a commenting server similar to Disqus”Switching to Disqus will hardly increase the appeal for most of the same people that dislike FB. See for example these stats on Disqus: http://donw.io/post/github-comments/
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on “Show HN: MyTwoCents – browser extension to put a comment section on any website”Corrected link: http://donw.io/post/github-comments/
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on “Replacing Disqus with GitHub Comments”
