Ask HN: Are blog comments a thing of the past?
by skilled on Hacker News.
So, someone built Blog Surf[0] and I spent my morning weaving through various blogs (since it has a directory), and first thing that caught my eye was that for every 5 blogs I checked, only 1 had comments open on article pages. If I look at posts like this one[1] and this one also[2] – these are extremely detailed articles (very interesting too), but no comments? I am not pointing my finger towards the authors, either. It’s just weird that commenting is being pushed either to Twitter or email. What do you think about this? I fully understand that blog comments can be a pain in the butt to moderate when the average Joe just starts leaving “Thanks!” with a link to their website. But, it’s perfectly normal to remove the ability for anyone to link back to their website. [0]: https://ift.tt/TVN3P7w [1]: https://ift.tt/6y3nkJT [2]: https://ift.tt/j3lZVib