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I noticed the same thing about a week ago when I was setting up comments for my blog [1]. I hate bloated websites, so I copied the Disqus markup and opened up

by chubot 10y ago

I noticed the same thing about a week ago when I was setting up comments for my blog [1]. I hate bloated websites, so I copied the Disqus markup and opened up Chrome dev tools, and saw the Facebook URL along with dozens of other resources being loaded. I ended up researching WAY too many comment systems, and eventually settled on Reddit. Not ideal, but better than all the alternatives. Blog commenting is pretty broken right now, I guess due to the dominance of social networks. I wanted to write my own blog comment service in rage but thought better of it. Disqus seems pretty sloppy. I was surprised to learn that they were an early YC company. [1] http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2016/12/29.html http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2016/12/29.html

daurnimator 10y ago
How did you use reddit as a commenting system? It's something I've thought about before but didn't know someone has already built it
- ChristianBundy 10y ago
  I'm guessing they've just set up a subreddit, which they post in each time they make a new blog post. In the past I've seen "Join the conversation on Reddit: ${link}" at the end of blog posts, but maybe they're doing it differently.
  - cinquemb 10y ago
    I'm not a user of reddit, nor familiar with their ins an outs, but does reddit allow for threads in an iframe? maybe that could be an option?
  - daurnimator 10y ago
    As the sibling poster suggests: I was thinking of somehow embedding a reddit comment thread onto the page. Either via an iframe (if you own the subreddit you can control the CSS on the other side to make it match), or some JS library that did XHRs to reddit's API.
- chubot 10y ago
  I created a subreddit [1], and I just submit every post to it. In my scripts to generate HTML from markdown, I add a footer with the comment URL. It's not very active, but it's only been alive for one week. It's an experiment, as I mentioned. It could be improved by showing the comments inline using Reddit's API [2], which seems pretty good (although I haven't used it). And I could probably automate the subsmission too. But I'm trying to keep it simple for now, until there's evidence that a lot of people want to comment! [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/oilshell/ https://www.reddit.com/r/oilshell/ [2] https://www.reddit.com/dev/api/ https://www.reddit.com/dev/api/

by chubot 10y ago

daurnimator 10y ago

How did you use reddit as a commenting system? It's something I've thought about before but didn't know someone has already built it

ChristianBundy 10y ago
I'm guessing they've just set up a subreddit, which they post in each time they make a new blog post. In the past I've seen "Join the conversation on Reddit: ${link}" at the end of blog posts, but maybe they're doing it differently.
- cinquemb 10y ago
  I'm not a user of reddit, nor familiar with their ins an outs, but does reddit allow for threads in an iframe? maybe that could be an option?
- daurnimator 10y ago
  As the sibling poster suggests: I was thinking of somehow embedding a reddit comment thread onto the page. Either via an iframe (if you own the subreddit you can control the CSS on the other side to make it match), or some JS library that did XHRs to reddit's API.
chubot 10y ago
I created a subreddit [1], and I just submit every post to it. In my scripts to generate HTML from markdown, I add a footer with the comment URL. It's not very active, but it's only been alive for one week. It's an experiment, as I mentioned. It could be improved by showing the comments inline using Reddit's API [2], which seems pretty good (although I haven't used it). And I could probably automate the subsmission too. But I'm trying to keep it simple for now, until there's evidence that a lot of people want to comment! [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/oilshell/ https://www.reddit.com/r/oilshell/ [2] https://www.reddit.com/dev/api/ https://www.reddit.com/dev/api/