ballarat-hackerspace / bhack.in

Drupal Installation profile / Makefile for the Ballarat Hackerspace website.
http://ballarathackerspace.org.au
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Comment system #14

Closed Decipher closed 9 years ago

Decipher commented 9 years ago

Due to my lack of desire to deal with spammers, I think it's best we offload the commenting system to a third party service.

Initial thought was to use Disqus, but @firnsy suggested G+ as a better choice as it's already our primary choice for community.

A very brief amount of research alludes to the lack of official API for this, but rather an embedded post system for G+ that doesn't work with community posts and is also the wrong direction for the desired workflow.

However, there does exist a Drupal module (https://www.drupal.org/project/gplus_comments_block) that uses an unofficial approach. Will test.

Desired workflow:

Decipher commented 9 years ago

The above mentioned Drupal module does appear to provide the currently recommend approach, and visually looks good. Have not yet done a functional test.

Decipher commented 9 years ago

Implemented.