[RobGav]

Best alternative are static generators like Jekyll or static CMS like Publii https://getpublii.com

[hobbescotch]

Isn’t the main draw of medium the discussion? Static sites by their nature aren’t built for discussion considering the lack of a real database. Of course you could add a third party commenting system like discus, but then you relying on a third party service for comments and all the privacy and support concerns that come from that.

[meritt]

TIL that Medium posts have a discussion section.

[dqpb]

I prefer discussions to be decoupled from content - e.g. hacker news.

[opencl]

I think an extremely tiny minority of readers of most blogs ever leave comments.

IMO the best solution is to host your actual articles on a static site and host the discussion elsewhere with a link at the bottom of the page. Host your own forum, make a subreddit, submit links to HN, whatever.

[dmitriid]

Even though it’s the draw, Medium has gone out of its way to make discussions a horrible experience: hiding them, breaking mouse interactions, promoting discussions out of context, losing scroll positions etc.

[fullstackchris]

Or, if you like having your own code base for your own blog, GatsbyJS ;)

Obviously a bit more involved than your examples.