How to Add Comments to a Hugo Site (Without a...

Hugo is wonderful for performance and terrible for anything stateful — including comments. If you want readers to talk back, you need a third-party widget that runs in the browser. Here's the shortest path to threaded comments on a Hugo site, using EchoThread (privacy-first, no ads, no tracking, under 15 KB gzipped, free during beta). 1. Get an API key Sign up at echothread.io, add your domain, copy the key. 2. Add the embed to layouts/_default/single.html {{ define "main" }} <article> <h1>{{ .T