A New Approach To Comments

A pure static site has nowhere to store responses after the pages are generated. Disqus is a popular system that uses Javascript to store comment posted from here in their backend and dynamically render them in a div here. But the more I thought about it, the more I came to reconsider the conventional approach to comments.

Some of the most popular bloggers out argue that a blog without comments is not a blog. I realy do appreciate the points they make about two-way communication. However, I never liked being responsible for content on my blog that I did not put there.

So in the chaos of dealing with my site being hacked I made the decision to finally leave comments behind. The comment form below now sends me an email. If you want your comment to be publicly visible, I encourage you to start a blog or a tumblr or public social profile (on Facebook, Google+, Twitter, etc). There are a lot of options available today.

I don’t have trackbacks working here yet so if you want to ensure I see your feedback, please drop me comment with a link. A little bit ago someone left me this comment:

I’d leave a comment… but I’m not sure you’d read it?

I assure you that I read all comments. I also try to respond to most comments. In many cases, I plan to respond via a future blog post and it just takes a while for me to work through the queue.

So that’s my new approach to comments. Maybe one day I’ll reconsider [Disqus][] or some other commenting system. Until then, keep coding. You know I am.