The Return of the Comment(s)

In the twenty plus years this blog has been around, I’ve had various different comment systems. Initially, I simply stored them in a database (this blog used to be powered by ColdFusion), but eventually moved to Disqus. I had a pretty huge amount of comments and was generally OK with the service, but eventually, folks simply stopped commenting. I then made the decision to simply kill off the integration. I wrote some scripts to get my data, stored them as flat files, and you can still see the old comments on posts that had them. About a year or so I added in Webmentions, which works ok, but doesn’t really feel the same. After some time thinking about it, I decided maybe its time to... more →
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