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Octomments - using GitHub as a comment plugin

posted in JavaScript on 2020-01-31   octomments github comments github comments github issues server issues comment https github krasimir octomments https repo app

87% of my readers are using Chrome on desktop. This means that I have the luxury to care less about performance. However I just recently found that this blog has 56 (out of 100) points on Google's pagespeed test. That's not good. The report says that my Disqus comments are blocking the main thread for ~900ms. I want comments on my blog but I also want my users to reach to content as quickly as possible. So, after so many years using Disqus I decided to break with it and use something else.

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