X-Git-Url: https://iankelling.org/git/?p=iankelling.org;a=blobdiff_plain;f=blog%2F2016-08-25-site-redesign.md;h=110684a0e1dcbcfef7304a490e21b24b37faca67;hp=7e9452a50bba51d1486d96a29184becf5f21f426;hb=50f4bbcfe420cdd17a7ffa8ef356b07105639b9b;hpb=d527bf2d565981135c06ea137946027807e4e28c diff --git a/blog/2016-08-25-site-redesign.md b/blog/2016-08-25-site-redesign.md index 7e9452a..110684a 100644 --- a/blog/2016-08-25-site-redesign.md +++ b/blog/2016-08-25-site-redesign.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ title: "Site redesigned. Random thoughts" Please let me know what you think of the current site design. It's my own creation. -Disqus and it's ilk suck: it pushes tracking, advertising, and proprietary javascript on your users. The comments aren't saved by archive.org. People have lots more reasons they dislike it. NPR just deleted 2.8 billion Disqus comments. I didn't find any simple way to add self hosted comments, so I wrote my own. Later, I did find some [solutions](solutions), but I'm partial to my own. +Disqus and it's ilk suck: it pushes tracking, advertising, and proprietary javascript on your users. The comments aren't saved by archive.org. People have lots more reasons they dislike it. NPR just deleted 2.8 billion Disqus comments. I didn't find any simple way to add self hosted comments, so I wrote my own. Later, I did find some [solutions](https://posativ.org/isso/docs/), but I'm partial to my own. I originally used Jekyll (the most popular static site generator), but I ditched it and made my own site generator. It's only complex enough for my own needs, and It was fun. One nice thing is I'm much faster than Jekyll, so I can handle page regen on comment submission without performance worries. I regen a page in 120ms, compared to jekyll at 430 ms, and I have no idea if that would grow when the site grew etc.