Today, I turned on local comments after at least a seven-year hiatus. I cannot remember the specific reason for turning them off, but it probably had something to do with page formatting. Saving reader comments wasn't important to me as I mostly wanted to hear from friends, not strangers and most folks were seeing the entries because of my links on social media.
The stats prove that the majority of readers still arrive through my daily links on Facebook and Twitter. However, a fair portion of the 5,000-visits-per-month do arrive through external, Internet searches. So, at least providing the option to comment directly from the footer of the entry seems like the way to go.
This will be in effect for onward posts starting yesterday. Why don't you jot out a little something to me, right now!