@samnewman @Netlify If you’ve gone to the lengths of rolling your own site with an SSG, you might be willing to also assemble a comments system with the building blocks @Netlify gives you. I made a demo which might be of interest.
https://jamstack-comments.netlify.com/
And a write up:
https://css-tricks.com/jamstack-comments/
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