A slimmed down fork - sending mainly as FYI :-)

[srinathh]

Hello - Thanks for releasing such a beautiful and functional theme with a permissive license. I bought you a few coffees :-) I have also forked your theme to remove dependencies on third party services that could be liabilities in today's legal environment or are in my opinion not suitable for simple static blogs on Github pages and also made a few fixes/updates. Sending along a PR in case you want to cherry pick any fixes.

Third Party Dependencies removed

• Ad Sense
• Disqus
• Gravataar

Jekyll Plugins un-supportd by Github Pages removed

• jekyll-toc
• jekyll-archive

Other Changes

• Loading JQuery from offical CDN vs. serving loacally
• Removed lazy loading of styles & font
• Removed Lunr search - client side search acoss lots of posts inefficient
• Star Rating - not very useful without server backend
• Outdated social sharing URLs fixed, Reddit sharing added
• Added an Email button & added conditional check for Follow