I added an open comments section to every blog post on the website. I looked at many different static website commenting systems before settling on Emote, which is not self-hosted or open source. It was extremely easy to set up, however, so I’ll leave it up for now. Cusdis seems like a viable alternative if Emote doesn’t work out.
Cactus Comments is very promising, but I had a finicky time deploying it onto this website.
I’ll keep an eye on both Giscus and Utterances in case they ever add the features I want. I really like both of those projects.
For now, this is a test post to see how well Emote runs! Feel free to leave a comment below. Comments are enabled on every blog post.