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🗃 Integrate Pico CMS and let your users manage their own websites
https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/cms_pico
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app doesn't support the pico-comments plugin #151

Closed StCyr closed 4 years ago

StCyr commented 4 years ago

Supporting user comments on blogs created with this app would be awesome.

I've tried with https://github.com/push-eax/pico-comments until I've realised it needs to POST the comments to my server (Captain obvious? Yes, it's me)

Unfortunately, cms_pico doesn't support POST.

Do you think it's something that you could support?

PhrozenByte commented 4 years ago

Short answer: I'm afraid not, no :unamused:

Long answer: This plugin relies on creating Markdown files to store comments. This makes totally sense for Pico and is a great database-less solution, however, in the context of Pico CMS for Nextcloud it's a huge issue. The plugin expects a single Pico instance with a single content folder and therefore stores comments inside the plugin's folder. However, in Pico CMS for Nextcloud we use a content folder per user. Thus we can't store the comments in the plugin's folder (which would otherwise act as some sort of "global comments storage"), but must store it within the Nextcloud storage. However, Nextcloud doesn't just store files on the filesystem, but also caches the folder structure in its database. Nextcloud uses a unique API for filesystem operations. The plugin doesn't know this. You'll have to heavily modify the plugin to meet the special needs of Nextcloud. The fact that the app doesn't accept POST requests is the smallest issue I'm afraid

StCyr commented 4 years ago

Ok, fair enough.

unfortunate but totally understandable => closing issue