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It would be nice if there were a service where people could write their comments and have them expire after, say 24 hours, but the blogger could run a script wh
by dane-pgp 7y ago
It would be nice if there were a service where people could write their comments and have them expire after, say 24 hours, but the blogger could run a script which downloads them before that happens. By having a local copy of the comments, the blogger could check them and include the approved ones into their static content.
Each comment would be associated with a salted hash based on either an IP address (for anonymous comments) or an account on a social login provider (like Google or Facebook). By default, a user could only post 1 comment every 24 hours, but the blogger could then publish a whitelist of people who are exempt from that restriction.
If this were an open standard, then the blogger could switch their comment provider at a moment's notice, without losing any data.
- alexmingoia 7y agoThat open standard exists, it’s called Webmention. You can use a free Webmention server like https://webmention.io https://webmention.io and download comments with your API. Comments are just webpages where people respond to your blog. Webmention works like this: Someone writes a reply on their blog and then sends you a Webmention. You can add it to your site or do whatever with it. It’s decentralized and there’s no vendor lock-in.
- p4bl0 7y agoSo it's just like trackbacks we used to have in the late 2000s?
- alexmingoia 7y agoWebmention is the current standard for doing what trackbacks did, and simplified. Webmention doesn’t require any sort of RDF or special code like trackbacks. Verifying a Webmention only involves looking in the HTML for any link to the page being mentioned.