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title: About Comments
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author: Collin J. Doering
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date: Jul 30, 2015
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description: The current state of comments on blog.rekahsoft.ca
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tags: general
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Currently as some may have noticed, the "See Comments" link under each individual blog post
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does nothing. This is because I have been struggling to find a good solution to handle
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comments. Of course many people choose to use Disqus. Unfortunately due to the proprietary
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nature of Disqus, I refuse to use it (See
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[this](http://web.archive.org/web/20150323224820/http://blog.irukado.org/2013/12/disqus-considered-harmful/)).
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There are some open source solutions including:
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[Isso](http://posativ.org/isso/)
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~ - Written in Python.
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- Supports modern browsers (IE10+, Firefox, Chrome, ...)
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[Juvia](https://github.com/phusion/juvia)
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~ - Written in Ruby
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- Not maintained
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There are quite a few others, though I haven't spent much time investigating them as many of
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them are incomplete or unmaintained. See <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6818416> for a
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decent discussion of "Disqus Alternatives".
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2023-05-28 23:22:53 +00:00
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I've tried Isso but because my blog is a Single Page Application (SPA) where pages can be
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addressed directly or using a anchor url. For example, this post can be reached via
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[/#/posts/about-comments.html]() or [/posts/about-comments.html](). Forgive my vague
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explanation, its been a few months since I last played with Isso. Its too bad I couldn't get
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it to function because from all the open source options, it seems to be the most mature
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solution.
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Another option that came to mind is to use a sub-reddit for my blog and post new threads for
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each blog post as a way for people to submit comments. I don't like this as the content
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would then not be hosted on my servers and it would require users to create a account on
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Reddit. Not to mention the process wouldn't be simple to automate so I'd have to go create a new
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reddit thread in my sub-reddit every time I submitted a new post.
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The last option I've considered is just foregoing comments all together. Personally, I rarely
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leave comments on blogs and if I'm interested in getting a hold of someone I generally prefer
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to use email.
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What do you think? Feel free to email me at <collin.doering@rekahsoft.ca> with any comments
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and/or suggestions. Anyways, over the next while I hope to find a solution, but for the time
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being use email or IRC if you wish to contact me.
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