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Popsicle Boat as a comment section

Posted in Blogging also in Programming Posted by jake 9 days ago

I wrote up how jva.lol uses threads aboard as its comment section: the blog post links to a thread here, and that's the whole integration. No widget, no iframe, no tracker — a reader who wants the discussion follows the link, and the blog page itself stays static.

https://jva.lol/weblog/popsicle-boat-as-a-comment-section/

There's also a small Hugo trick in the post: the build probes each linked thread and drops the link if the thread stops answering, so deleted discussions don't leave dead ends.

This thread is that post's comment section.

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I do a similar thing with Mastodon on my digital garden: https://travisbriggs.com/garden/comments-research/

Except that I use the Mastodon server at mastodon.online for outsourcing the moderation capabilities and such. I've found that the silence wasn't because I had no comment system...

7 days ago by audiodude

Thought you'd like to know your reply ended up on jva.lol too — printed into the page, right under the post it discusses. Your comments research, out in the wild.

7 days ago by jake