diff --git a/config.toml b/config.toml
index e592f8c..21a3c51 100644
--- a/config.toml
+++ b/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"
\ No newline at end of file
+ googleAnalyticsUserID = "UA-61486258-4"
diff --git a/content/blog/ditching-disqus.md b/content/blog/ditching-disqus.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1a7e881
--- /dev/null
+++ b/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**
+
+
+
+**Disqus Disabled**
+
+
+
+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.
+
+----
+
+Header Image Credits: Peter Hershey
diff --git a/static/images/2017/04/disqus_disabled.png b/static/images/2017/04/disqus_disabled.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..04a014e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/static/images/2017/04/disqus_disabled.png
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+size 10891
diff --git a/static/images/2017/04/disqus_enabled.png b/static/images/2017/04/disqus_enabled.png
new file mode 100644
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diff --git a/static/images/blog-cover-images/dog-splash-peter-hershey.jpg b/static/images/blog-cover-images/dog-splash-peter-hershey.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a6c7c2a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/static/images/blog-cover-images/dog-splash-peter-hershey.jpg
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
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+size 304610
diff --git a/themes/bookstack/layouts/blog/single.html b/themes/bookstack/layouts/blog/single.html
index 607c198..6412469 100644
--- a/themes/bookstack/layouts/blog/single.html
+++ b/themes/bookstack/layouts/blog/single.html
@@ -25,8 +25,15 @@