diff --git a/solr/solr-ref-guide/src/_includes/head.html b/solr/solr-ref-guide/src/_includes/head.html
index ac20a72f9e..60d6e5d729 100755
--- a/solr/solr-ref-guide/src/_includes/head.html
+++ b/solr/solr-ref-guide/src/_includes/head.html
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ "css/customstyles.css" }}">
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ "css/theme-solr.css" }}">
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ "css/ref-guide.css" }}">
-<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ "css/comments.css" }}">
 
 <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.4/jquery.min.js"></script>
 <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery-cookie/1.4.1/jquery.cookie.min.js"></script>
diff --git a/solr/solr-ref-guide/src/_layouts/page.html b/solr/solr-ref-guide/src/_layouts/page.html
index 22f88e6909..d9f56c9f1e 100755
--- a/solr/solr-ref-guide/src/_layouts/page.html
+++ b/solr/solr-ref-guide/src/_layouts/page.html
@@ -68,16 +68,4 @@ layout: default
 
 </div>
 
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-
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-<div style="font-size: 1.6em; color: #d9411e; padding-top: 30px;">Comments on this Page</div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>We welcome feedback on Solr documentation. However, we cannot provide application support via comments. If you need help, please send a message to the <a href="https://lucene.apache.org/solr/resources.html#community">Solr User mailing list</a>.</p></div>
-</div>
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-<iframe width="100%" height="500" src="https://comments.apache.org/iframe.lua?site=solr-refguide&style=css/comments.css&page={{ page_id }}"></iframe>
-</noscript>
-
 {% include footer.html %}
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index f59796affc..0000000000
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