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Discussion on: Are comment sections useful/necessary for personal blogs?

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Kelvin Wangonya

I like that approach, but putting myself in the readers' shoes, I think it might be a bit of a hustle to take the conversation to social media. I personally wouldn't go that far just to point out a typo or some overlooked bug in the code (for technical/coding/tutorial-like posts). The reader might also not be on social media for their own reasons.

I think this would work better if as a reader, I came across the blog post on social media in the first place - maybe as a shared link or something. Then it would be easy just to add a comment directly from there. But if I accessed your site directly on the web, having to copy the link, leave the site and find you on social media to discuss it is a bit much. Unless the discussion is really really important.

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Bayu Angora

Beside I don't use any comment section, also I don't use any syntax highlights feature. Because most content of my website is not about coding or development, but about global issue such social, politic, literature, philosophy, etc.

So, if my readers want to discuss about it, they can mention me to discuss globally, not stuck to specific content. If my content is about coding or development, I think I will use syntax highlights and Disqus too.

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Kelvin Wangonya

Oh, I see. Yeah, social media will do great for your use case.