Right. It's on the author to provide any means of communication that doesn't go through disqus—say, twitter, email, slack, github, keybase, etc etc. I can't think this would be onerous for anyone.
Call me old-school but email works. Everyone has an email address. It's so simple, is a standard. They can even do a fancy portal to email, as a form. Email even sits there until you have time to deal with it.
I've been using email successfully, since the early 1980s. It's easy enough for us old people to understand. Well, some of us understand it. Some folks insist on doing it in emacs, but they are few and far between.
Emacs, it's a great operating system but a really lousy text editor.
When I first learned to use a computer, you were fancy if you had an amber screen. These days, I don't even get involved in the vi vs. emacs wars. Instead, I recommend gedit.
The other day, someone was pointing out that you could use one of the image libraries and browse in emacs with ASCII art images being generated on the fly. They were seemingly proud of this. I kinda felt bad for then and I wanted to send then a mouse.
I'm only half joking. So long as it works for the individual, who am I to tell them what to do? It does seem pretty crazy, but the world needs crazy people.
I've been using email successfully, since the early 1980s. It's easy enough for us old people to understand. Well, some of us understand it. Some folks insist on doing it in emacs, but they are few and far between.