Comments on static sites with Isso — lightweight, self-hosted, and tracking-free

Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A static site has no backend. No database, no application server processing requests — and that’s exactly what makes it fast, cheap, and resilient. But that simplicity comes at a cost when you need anything that depends on persistent state, and comments are the most obvious case. In WordPress or Ghost, the commenting system is part of the application. In a site generated by Hugo, Jekyll, or Eleventy, that layer simply doesn’t exist.

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Comments on static sites with Isso — lightweight, self-hosted, and tracking-free