[Arcanum-XIII]

The idea is not that everything need to be static - some contents are by nature updated too fast, or too often, to be static. Still, there's lot of page that could be pre generated since the content of the datastore itself is not evolving a lot. Most blog could use a static blog generator for example, with the comment being the only dynamic part - and a lot of cms page too ! Pre baking stuff is so much easier, faster, and cleaner.

[chriswarbo]

True. My personal site is static (generated with Hakyll), and uses Disqus for comments (only because I haven't yet seen a simple, self-hosted alternative which has been battle-tested).

[oneeyedpigeon]

I work on a statically generated site in which the comment form simply feeds back into the generation workflow. It's certainly not 'battle tested', but it has the advantage that a) we get to own the comments rather than giving them to someone else b) everyone can partake in the discussion c) much less demand on the client when rendering