There are middle grounds though - if you want to have a mostly-static site, and still allow dynamic comments.
There are some self-hosted systems out there, including my trivial e-comments code: https://github.com/skx/e-comments/
There are some self-hosted systems out there, including my trivial e-comments code: https://github.com/skx/e-comments/
I remember a few years ago whenever you clicked on a Guardian news link in Facebook it would try and get you to sign up to their Facebook app/plugin, that would then publish on your timeline what you'd been reading, let alone commenting on. I thought that was a bit ghastly.
I'm assuming that when you make a comment through Facebook on the Huff post, it displays on your timeline or some such, providing additional reach for the story.