Spent a couple of hours looking at comments capability for static websites. What it comes down to is one of the two things:
- Use a third-party tool
- Do something my self.
I looked at Disqus, which has been around for a while, and used on a lot of sites. I also looked at Hyvor Talk. They are both paid tools, which provide what I’m after - comments and emojis for like, heart, etc. I’m just not sure that the site will get the hits to warrant spending the £100 a year on these tools.
The next option is to design something myself. I have an AWS account, so writing something that utilises a Lambda function and a DynamoDB backend, with API Gateway to provide the API to be called, shouldn’t be that difficult. It should also be a lot cheaper. There is a free tier for DynamoDB. I think it is 10Gb a month. Lambdas are paid on execution so a couple of times a day. I would hope it would be less than £1 per month.
