Adding Comments to a Static Site, Why Hugo + Giscus Works Well
Static site generators such as Hugo deliver speed, security, and simplicity by avoiding servers and databases. The challenge appears when you need a genuinely dynamic feature like user comments. This article explains how commenting systems fit into static sites, the common approaches, their trade-offs, and why the final solution—Hugo with Giscus—strikes an effective balance. The Core Issue: Static Sites Don’t Handle Dynamic Data Static sites pre-render HTML and serve it from a CDN or storage bucket. There’s no backend to: ...