Switching comments from Disqus to utteranc.es and importing to Github with F# | Stuart Grassie: TemporalCohesion

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Switching comments from Disqus to utteranc.es and importing to Github with F# | Stuart Grassie: TemporalCohesion

Shows how to export blog comments from Disqus into Github Issues and integrate utterance.es

https://www.temporalcohesion.co.uk/2020/07/20/switching-comments-from-disqus-to-utterances-importing-with-fsharp

[TysonMN]

I recently started a programming blog. I also use utteranc.es and love it.

|> Seq.filter (fun (post : Disqus.Post) -> not post.IsSpam || not post.IsDeleted)

I’m not sure the Seq.filter ... worked correctly, as I still had to go and manually delete a couple of comments that were marked as spam from the Github Issues

I think you meant to AND those conditions together...

|> Seq.filter (fun (post : Disqus.Post) -> not post.IsSpam && not post.IsDeleted)

...or negate their OR

|> Seq.filter (fun (post : Disqus.Post) -> not (post.IsSpam || post.IsDeleted))

Otherwise, you are keeping spam was previously deleted or deleted posts that are not spam.

I am increasingly dissatisfied with the name filter. My current thought is that functions named keepIf and removeIf would be better. Then you would be able to write...

|> Seq.removeIf (fun (post : Disqus.Post) -> post.IsSpam || post.IsDeleted)

...which is the same as what you had but with filter replaced with removeIf.