Removed disqus and added blog post about that

config.toml

@@ -2,11 +2,10 @@ languageCode = "en-gb"
 title = "BookStack"
 baseurl = "https://bookstackapp.com/"
 theme="bookstack"
-disqusShortname = "bookstackblog"
 
 [permalinks]
   post = "/blog/:slug/"
 
 [params]
   blogCover = "/images/cover.jpg"
-  googleAnalyticsUserID = "UA-61486258-4"
+  googleAnalyticsUserID = "UA-61486258-4"

content/blog/ditching-disqus.md

@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
++++
+categories = ["News"]
+tags = ["News"]
+description = ""
+slug = "ditching-disqus-comments"
+draft = false
+title = "Ditching Disqus Comments"
+date = 2017-04-17T13:05:00Z
+author = "Dan Brown"
+image = "/images/blog-cover-images/dog-splash-peter-hershey.jpg"
++++
+
+Just a small update about a change on the blog here.
+I have decided to drop the use of Disqus as a commenting system and instead
+replaced the comments area with a few simple links to my twitter and to the
+BookStack issues page.
+
+I've really liked Disqus and am grateful for the service they
+provided but it looks like they are moving forward with increasing their ad
+displaying and user tracking.
+
+A few times recently I've noticed requests hanging when loading blog pages
+which keeps the tab loading icon spinning making the load time feel slow and
+you'd sometimes see tracking domains pop up in the corner of the browser.
+Looking at the network requests a whole load of requests were going out to
+ad tracking domains even though ads were not showing. Some of these requests
+were even failing stretching out that load time feeling.
+
+Here's two screenshots to compare the page network activity for the same page
+with and without Disqus:
+
+**Disqus Enabled**
+
+![With Disqus](/images/2017/04/disqus_enabled.png)
+
+**Disqus Disabled**
+
+![Without Disqus](/images/2017/04/disqus_disabled.png)
+
+So here's what that shows, On a single page Disqus:
+
+* Increased the download size by 2.5x
+* Increased the request count by 8.5x
+* Increased the total page load time by 25x
+
+This was tested on a locally served maching so that will effect those results
+against Disqus's favour but the difference on the live, remote system isn't much
+different. From the above I've decided, for my use case, Disqus is not worth it.
+I'd rather have faster feeling pages and increase user privacy than have
+comments available.
+
+Thank you to all those whom have previously left constructive and positive
+comments about the project. I am thinking about using something like Gitter
+as an alternative source of feedback and discussion but for now I'm keeping it
+simple.
+
+----
+
+<span style="font-size: 0.8em;opacity:0.8;">Header Image Credits: <a href="https://unsplash.com/@peterhershey" target="_blank">Peter Hershey</a></span>

themes/bookstack/layouts/blog/single.html

@@ -25,8 +25,15 @@
       <div class="footer-content">
         {{ partial "mailchimp.html" . }}
 
+        <div class="text-muted">
+          Want to let me know what you think of BookStack or this post? <br>
+          You find me on twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/ssddanbrown">@ssddanbrown</a>. <br>
+          You can <a href="https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack/issues">open a suggestion or issue on GitHub</a>.
+        </div>
+
+        <br>
+        <br>
 
-        {{ template "_internal/disqus.html" . }}
       </div>
     </div>