{"slug": "new-site-design", "title": "New Site Design", "summary": "The article announces a website redesign for the new year, replacing the Hugo framework with a custom static site generator. It also details the switch from Disqus to Giscus for comments, citing Disqus's excessive ads and noting that Giscus uses ad-free GitHub Discussions, making it ideal for a technical blog.", "body_md": "New Site Design\nHappy New Year! The site has a fresh new design. I’ve replaced Hugo with a minimal, custom static site generator that suits my needs much better.\nAnother update: comments have moved from Disqus to Giscus. While Disqus was once a decent platform, it has become overwhelmed with ads. Giscus, on the other hand, uses GitHub Discussions as the backend—meaning no ads, just straightforward commenting, which fits a technical blog well.\nGiscus will be the commenting system here for the foreseeable future.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/new-site-design", "canonical_source": "https://nand2mario.github.io/posts/2026/new_site_design/", "published_at": "2026-01-23 00:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-23 15:53:31.257189+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools", "open-source"], "entities": ["Hugo", "Disqus", "Giscus", "GitHub"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/new-site-design", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/new-site-design.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/new-site-design.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/new-site-design.jsonld"}}