Comments on a static blog — no backend, no login, all Cloudflare
I run a small Astro blog on Cloudflare Pages. It mixes developer write-ups with personal, everyday posts, so adding comments came with one hard constraint: no login wall. A GitHub-login widget like Giscus or Utterances would shut out every non-developer reader.
That ruled out the easy paths. Disqus is heavy and tracker-laden. Waline is genuinely good, but it wants a backend + database running outside Cloudflare — one more thing to operate. The blog already lives on Cloudflare Pages, so the goal became: keep comments inside the same stack. No login, no spam, no separate server.
Here's what I shipped — comments, likes, and moderation — entirely on Pages + D1 + Turnstile, with a Telegram bot as the moderation UI.
Architecture
