diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 90cc361..02fec98 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 - Supports displaying a custom list of links with icons in the sidebar
 - Global keyword support
 - Fuzzy date display using Javascript
+- Disqus comment integration
 
 ## Installing
 
@@ -36,6 +37,7 @@
 - `GOOGLE_PLUS_URL`: A link to your Google+ profile. Used for the [Google Authorship](http://www.google.com/insidesearch/features/authorship/index.html) feature.
 - `USER_LOGO_URL`: The image to display as the profile image. Can be local or a remote URL.
 - `DISQUS_SITENAME`: Set this to enable Disqus comments on articles.
+- `DISQUS_COLLAPSED`: Set to `True` to have article comments hidden by default. Clicking a link on the page will load them.
 - `TAGLINE`: The site's tagline. Rendered right below the image.
 - `SCROLL_TO_CONTENT`: If this is set to `True`, when content is below the sidebar (for example, on mobile), the page will be scrolled down to the content when it loads. An exception is made for the home page.
 - `MANGLE_EMAILS`: If enabled, any emails in the `SOCIAL` links will be obfuscated in HTML and have their links generated by Javascript when the page loads.
diff --git a/static/css/style.less b/static/css/style.less
index e1be931..904ef63 100644
--- a/static/css/style.less
+++ b/static/css/style.less
@@ -263,6 +263,15 @@
       font-size: 12px;
       color: @med-grey;
     }
+
+    div#article_comments{
+      padding-top: 10px;
+      padding-bottom: 10px;
+
+      i {
+        padding-right: 10px;
+      }
+    }
   }
 
   footer {
diff --git a/templates/article.html b/templates/article.html
index b4108b6..0a7c43b 100644
--- a/templates/article.html
+++ b/templates/article.html
@@ -47,18 +47,27 @@
   </div>
 
   {% if DISQUS_SITENAME %}
-    <div id="article_comments">
-        <div id="disqus_thread"></div>
-        <script type="text/javascript">
-           var disqus_identifier = "{{ article.url }}";
-           (function() {
-           var dsq = document.createElement('script'); dsq.type = 'text/javascript'; dsq.async = true;
-           dsq.src = '//{{ DISQUS_SITENAME }}.disqus.com/embed.js';
-           (document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(dsq);
-          })();
-        </script>
-        <noscript>Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href="http://disqus.com/?ref_noscript">comments powered by Disqus.</a></noscript>
+  <div id="article_comments">
+    <div id="disqus_thread">
+      {% if DISQUS_COLLAPSED %}
+      <a href="javascript:loadDisqus()"><i class="fa fa-comments fa-lg"></i>Click to load comments</a>
+      {% endif %}
     </div>
+  </div>
+
+  <script type="text/javascript">
+    var disqus_identifier = "{{ article.url }}";
+    loadDisqus = function() {
+      var dsq = document.createElement('script');
+      dsq.type = 'text/javascript';
+      dsq.async = true;
+      dsq.src = '//{{ DISQUS_SITENAME }}.disqus.com/embed.js';
+      (document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(dsq);
+    };
+    {% if not DISQUS_COLLAPSED %}
+    loadDisqus();
+    {% endif %}
+  </script>
   {% endif %}
 </article>
 {% endblock %}