I’ve been looking for a better way to manage comments. I think the idea of using GitHub issues as a forum is a pretty good strategy. I don’t have to worry about hosting them. Additionally, requiring a GitHub account and some of GitHub’s policies (will hopefully) work as a decent self-selection tool to reduce spam and trolling.

The technique I’m using was adopted from here. In the future, I might also use this system to allow more fine-grained commentary/feedback via the pull-request mechanism (which uses the same API).