Removing comments

A decade ago I was happy if there were comments on my blog. Ten years later, having a full-time job, family and lots of other responsibilities, I have no feelings about them. I feel good helping and informing others, but I feel comments on this blog aren't benefiting much in this area (helping others). Additionally, I prefer the cleaner look and shorter loading times of the website. Therefore, comments are no more.

I wanted to do this for quite a while, but the main reason I didn't was Twitter. I'd really like to use Twitter, but I dislike my current handle (ribicemir) which prevents me from using it. Phew.

I usually go by ribice at all the places (namely Google, GitHub, GitLab, Reddit, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitch, Hacker News, this website and dozens of other websites), but that handle is taken on Twitter (@ribice). I wouldn't feel that bad if someone used it, but it has literally zero activity on it. (if someone can help me grab it, I'd be very thankful)

Even though I rarely post on Twitter, I still publish my blog posts on Reddit/HackerNews, depending on the topic. From now on, if I do post somewhere, I'll include links to discussions at the bottom of the posts.

A few of the reasons I decided to remove comments (Disqus) from my website:

1. The website looks cleaner now, as the design is unified. Disqus comments look too complex and the layout can't be changed.

2. I prefer keeping the discussion in a single place, e.g. Reddit/HN/Twitter.

3. (Much) faster load times.

I'm always reachable via email (mail icon at the top), and will probably respond to you from other sources as well (ribice@gophers.slack, Twitter).