[HN Gopher] Utterances - a lightweight comments widget built on ...
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Utterances - a lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues
Author : jdorfman
Score : 66 points
Date : 2021-11-11 16:37 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| ashton314 wrote:
| I use this on my blog. (If anyone cares to see an example in the
| wild:
| https://lambdaland.org/posts/2021-11-09_programs_and_intent/)
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| It's been easy to set up and maintain. Not that I get many
| comments!
| SCUSKU wrote:
| This is amazing!! I hope GH supports this functionality forever
| clircle wrote:
| I use this for my blog. To my knowledge, this is the only non
| scummy and free comment system
| _fat_santa wrote:
| What's not to like about a service like Disqus? /s
| contravariant wrote:
| Actually, does anyone mind answering this question (non-
| sarcastically)? I'd be pretty interested in the answer.
| Dedime wrote:
| Look into Cactus comments! https://cactus.chat/
|
| Not affiliated. Just think it's cool.
| rochak wrote:
| Can confirm it is good. Have been using it for my blog.
| cwojno wrote:
| Having been looking for a way to add comments to a static site
| for a while now, this is very cool and should get more love.
| Thanks for the service and the post!
| drawqrtz wrote:
| Will definitely try it out! Love having comment systems for my
| blog but usually a pain to set up, this seems like a clever
| solution.
| TickCount wrote:
| Cool name ... but why do so many apps insist on using simple
| English words as names? Whatever happened to more boring, uncool,
| old-fashioned composite names like PhotoShop or Notepad or
| Powerpoint?
|
| The problem with one word names is that if the app gets big, it
| pollutes the search results for those words, making information
| hard to find. Just Google "Kafka", "electron" and you'll see what
| I mean.
|
| I get that there is a "cool factor" in using "austere" names. But
| please be considerate of the need of other professions ... Naming
| your app "electron", "polyhedra", etc makes it harder for
| physicists and mathematicians or even just the average person to
| find the information they look for.
|
| It's interesting to note that font designers generally are more
| considerate of not polluting the public naming space than
| programmers. Fonts are generally given names that just sound like
| they are names of a font (just like drugs are generally given
| names that "sound like names of a drug"). Apps used to follow
| similar conventions, hence PhotoShop, FrontPage, DreamWeaver,
| etc. I'm really not a fan of the "austere" naming aesthetics that
| have prevailed in recent years. And as a Kafka fan I'm tired of
| constantly coming across results about Apache Kafka when I'm
| searching for information related to the novelist. Yes, I know I
| can be more specific in my queries, but you'd be surprised how
| many good resources there are about Kafka that don't contain
| "Franz" anywhere, or how many pages on the internet are about
| Apache Kafka but don't contain "Apache" anywhere on the page. I
| used to have a Google alert set up for Kafka results and I had to
| turn it off because the noise to signal ratio is just too high.
| ajvs wrote:
| This is cool, but I do find it odd that GitLab and Gitea isn't
| supported. It's always strange to me seeing people choose to
| build their platforms dependent on proprietary 3rd party
| infrastructure when good open-source self-hosted alternatives are
| available and easy to set up.
| rapnie wrote:
| It would be awesome to see Gitea support as well. Generally
| speaking targeting other forges than Github is a niche to be
| filled for many (dev)tools.
| randomluck040 wrote:
| Maybe I'm alone with this but when I'm on GitHub, for some
| reason it feels more like I'm part of a community. For some
| reason gitlab doesn't convey that when I write an issue there.
| Maybe it's due to the packages that are on GitHub and gitlab
| themselves. That's why I prefer GitHub over gitlab, although
| everything we do in my team we do on gitlab.
| kixiQu wrote:
| "Wow, you can do really cool things if you violate terms of
| service" is the https://xkcd.com/1494/ of the web
| _fat_santa wrote:
| Github is a great platform for building apps that use its
| infrastructure, but not always for its intended purpose, this
| being a great example.
|
| I've personally built a number of apps on top of Github Gist. One
| of my apps is a bookmark sharing application, the idea is you
| create a bookmark collection and share it with others, all
| seperate from your browsers bookmarks. I ended up using Github
| Gist and got the ability to share bookmark collections right out
| of the box with GistID's.
|
| I built an app for bookmarks but you can really apply it to
| anything where you need to keep small amounts of data and that
| data doesn't need to be private (gist has a "Private" mode but
| it's similar to unlisted Youtube videos).
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