So long Disqus, hello Webmention

So long Disqus, hello Webmention
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I’m fed up with Disqus. It’s been useful, easy to plug on this blog, but it’s a mess for web performance, and I don’t own my data, so… bye bye. Webmention is now a great alternative, with more people implementing it, so let’s try to keep only that.When I launched this Jekyll based site a while ago, I didn’t put any comment system, because I didn’t like any of the options available at the moment.Later, I was missing the interaction I had on my previous dynamic blog powered by SPIP, so I jumped in the Disqus train, because it was the most used around me, and on the sites I visited.Installing Disqus on a blog only requires a few lines in the post template, with two JavaScript variable to set with Liquid values. Really easy.Then generate the site, deploy, and (...)