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robertseaton / os-blog

Blog about operating system design and implementation.
http://os-blog.com
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Open colegleason opened 13 years ago

colegleason commented 13 years ago

You need Disqus (or other) commenting systems in any blog where you want high traffic and interaction. People are going to want to comment.

robertseaton commented 13 years ago

Yeah, it's possible to do without comments and still be successful, but I think it's easier to build a community if you have them (and get return visitors). The problem with Disqus is that it's slow to load and Google can't index it, so I'm going to roll my own commenting system.

Basically, I'm going to have a comment form that will email me the person's comment via a little PHP. I'll read the email via emacs. An emacs macro will convert the email into a markdown file (which I will execute manually since comments have to be moderated anyways) and, then, when I regenerate the site, Jekyll will read all the comment files related to a post and include them in the output.

robertseaton commented 13 years ago

I also want comments to be threaded and have an "email me whenever someone responds to my comment" option.