Comment count and best comments integration?

Hi, on my website https://aboutphotography.blog I am trying to display comment counts of blog posts on my homepage.

Even though Squarespace offers native integration of Disques it still does not show comment count of blog posts.

I was told I need to edit HTML code for disqus to make this work. But then I was told you can not edit HTML of quarespace.

So I wondering if it is possible to make this work and if not is there a good alternative for commenting module that would show comment counts.

Somehow my readers find it annoying you have to insert email address everytime you want to comment with squarespace.