I've read a few people writing recently about how in the transition to static sites as the go-to for personal blogs (at least among a certain set, which certainly includes me) as having the overlooked side effect of no more comments on blogs, and how that was actually a fairly big loss.

I'm feeling it tbh - the people who respond to my blog posts here on mastodon are great, don't get me wrong, but almost none of them are the people I know from my IRL communities. Since I don't post them on facebook or instagram (and those platforms wouldn't necessarily surface my posts to friends anyways), I don't usually get any interactions with people not on fedi to my writing on my blog.

I like tinkering with my #11ty site sometimes, but setting up comments sounds like a lot of work.. I'm not even sure what folks are doing to make comments happen on a static site. Maybe I should just migrate to Ghost or something? Less fun and less dev culture cred, but perhaps a more quickly working solution to have comments on posts I write. Plus email notifications built in- I set up a Buttondown list that I keep forgetting to actually send to when I have a new post.