I'm looking to add comments to a website. Curious to know why the switch?

Hi @jonathanng, glad to see you here!

It wasn't that much of a well thought-out move. At the time, I was mainly concerned with the fact that new comments would never notify me: I don't check my GitHub frequently or reliably, so comments that needed my attention would sit for months before I saw them. Commento notifies me after every comment.

Separately, I was concerned with data lock-in: all of my comments were on GitHub, will little option to export them if/when it came time to change comment providers. Commento allows me the option to export my comments as a JSON file.

Finally, Commento has a lot more features than utterances: threaded replies, moderation, sticky comments, spam detection.

Hope that helps!

Thanks. Looks like Commento is easy to set up. I'm going with that.