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Popsicle Boat as a comment section

Posted in Blogging Discussing a post on jva.lol -> also in Programming Posted by jake created 1 month ago edited 1 month ago

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

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

1 month 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.

1 month ago by jake

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