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Looking for ways to interact with visitors to my static web site (piefed.social)

submitted 4 months ago by perishthethought@piefed.social to c/webdev@programming.dev

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Hey hey, I have a static hugo web site online, for me personally, on a free netlify account. It's extremely low traffic and currently the only way to interact with me via that site is to submit a contact form.

I am considering my options for making the site more interactive. I am concerned about the cost mostly - I have no budget or maybe could spend a very small amount - and the privacy of the data people might provide.

I've done some searching and see the options out there -- disqus has no privacy, commentbox.io seems OK -- but I am curious how you all solve this / what you recommend for someone with my very low-end requirements. Thanks for sharing what works for you.

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[–] damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you want to make your site more interactive but not necessarily with comments, look at the Open Heart protocol.

It’s a cool implementation where people can literally hit like on your writings whether they’re reading your site in the browser or within their RSS feed readers.

https://openheart.fyi/

[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 3 points 4 months ago

Oh I like that! Thanks for the idea.

[–] _ed@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 months ago

If you want to keep it fedi related there are apparently ways to implement mastodon as comments

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

There's always Disqus. But here are a few more alternatives:

If you move to free hosting on github pages, you could also use Github discussions: https://github.com/features/discussions

[–] zlatko@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

Derek Sivers has a very simple and direct implementation for static comments.