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Moving from Disqus to Schnack

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Re: Moving from Disqus to Schnack

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Post by frik »

misnamed wrote: post #43

Why not remove comments entirely? Most people engage on secondary platforms (twitter, facebook) anyway, and most comments are garbage in my experience. Ironically, while trying to post this comment I got ... Bad gateway: The web server reported a bad gateway error.

Don't do that. Comment section is great to build a community on your site.

There is a reason why sites including former popular news sites loose visitors and visitors stay less long on those sites without comment system.

Also sites like HN recently started to heavily moderate news and comments. Lot's of things get removed and hidden away from visitors, to enforce their world view. So it's better to don't feed monopolies like HN and Reddit.

Re: Moving from Disqus to Schnack

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Post by Alex3917 »

md224 wrote: post #49

A general observation about online comments: when I read an article online and want to know what other people are saying about it, I have no easy & simple way to do so. If your blog has a comments section, that's great, but what about all the other platforms that people discuss things on? (Twitter and Reddit [and of course HN!] come to mind.) I would love to see a comments system that provided insight into commentary…

> when I read an article online and want to know what other people are saying about it, I have no easy & simple way to do so

Surprised no one else has pointed this out, but that was one of the original problems that Disqus was trying to solve. E.g.:

https://www.usv.com/blog/disqus

Re: Moving from Disqus to Schnack

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Post by frankquist »

md224 wrote: post #49

A general observation about online comments: when I read an article online and want to know what other people are saying about it, I have no easy & simple way to do so. If your blog has a comments section, that's great, but what about all the other platforms that people discuss things on? (Twitter and Reddit [and of course HN!] come to mind.) I would love to see a comments system that provided insight into commentary…

There used to be the Trackback system that would allow someone to write blog post and "ping" the blog post they wrote the response to. I am not sure what happened to that system.

Re: Moving from Disqus to Schnack

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Post by franciscop »

md224 wrote: post #49

A general observation about online comments: when I read an article online and want to know what other people are saying about it, I have no easy & simple way to do so. If your blog has a comments section, that's great, but what about all the other platforms that people discuss things on? (Twitter and Reddit [and of course HN!] come to mind.) I would love to see a comments system that provided insight into commentary…

I tried to do this but I was told to stop by HN itself: https://comments.network/

Seriously thinking about giving it a spin, remove the parts that HN was not happy with and relaunch it.

Re: Moving from Disqus to Schnack

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Post by skymt »

frankquist wrote: post #94
md224 wrote: post #49

A general observation about online comments: when I read an article online and want to know what other people are saying about it, I have no easy & simple way to do so. If your blog has a comments section, that's great, but what about all the other platforms that people discuss things on? (Twitter and Reddit [and of course HN!] come to mind.) I would love to see a comments system that provided insight into commentary…

There used to be the Trackback system that would allow someone to write blog post and "ping" the blog post they wrote the response to. I am not sure what happened to that system.

It was massively abused by spammers.

Re: Moving from Disqus to Schnack

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Post by ploggingdev »

md224 wrote: post #49

A general observation about online comments: when I read an article online and want to know what other people are saying about it, I have no easy & simple way to do so. If your blog has a comments section, that's great, but what about all the other platforms that people discuss things on? (Twitter and Reddit [and of course HN!] come to mind.) I would love to see a comments system that provided insight into commentary…

There's a standard for that called Webmention, but it's not widely used : https://indieweb.org/Webmention

You can see it in action on this page : https://aaronparecki.com/oauth-2-simplified/

Re: Moving from Disqus to Schnack

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Post by rz2k »

NetOpWibby wrote: post #53
kinkrtyavimoodh wrote: post #27

Another thread on the front page right now is talking about how it's very difficult to get views on your blogs now. And I've felt the same. 5-10 years ago I used to get 2-3 digit views on my posts. And I used to use Wordpress / Blogger and the like. Then, when it became fashionable, I spent a lot of time (at least 20-30 hrs, and mind you this was not the geeky kind of work, it was like refactoring code using just gre…

For some reason, I'm getting 30+ hits a day on my blog (from Russia) for a post I made about dealing with APFS issues. It's a tutorial so there's that. I used to use static generators but I like what I can do with Express more. I now have a custom built static site generator based on Express.

I'm not sure whether you're saying the hits or your blog is from Russia. If you are trying to figure out why you're getting Russian visitors, Yandex Webmaster looks like it serves the same purpose as Google Analytics.

Re: Moving from Disqus to Schnack

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Post by KajMagnus »

Setting up a server and installing commenting software, and configuring OpenAuth etc login takes some time.

If you want to skip all that, you can use Effective Discussions embedded comments, demo: https://www.kajmagnus.blog/new-embedded-comments. It's open source (https://github.com/debiki/ed-server, I'm developing it), no ads, and has the features Schnack has (notifications via email) and some unique things people here at HN might like:

https://www.effectivediscussions.org/-32/how-hacker-news-can...

Go to https://www.effectivediscussions.org/ and click Create Forum and then choose Blog Comments if you want to try it out. (I hope some self promotion is ok.) It's also lightweight, just a 140 kb Javascript bundle.

Re: Moving from Disqus to Schnack

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Post by RobertRoberts »

styfle wrote: post #60
md224 wrote: post #49

A general observation about online comments: when I read an article online and want to know what other people are saying about it, I have no easy & simple way to do so. If your blog has a comments section, that's great, but what about all the other platforms that people discuss things on? (Twitter and Reddit [and of course HN!] come to mind.) I would love to see a comments system that provided insight into commentary…

I cross post to medium from my blog. I figure if people want to comment, they can do it there. Here's an example of the original[0] and the copy[1]. [0]: https://www.ceriously.com/blog/post.php?id=2017-10-16-es6-mo... [1]: https://medium.com/@styfle/22969cd360f0/ Medium allows you to import pretty easily and sets the canonical URL so Google (hopefully) won't get confused with duplicate content.

Medium has the worst comment system I have ever used. Click a comment and go back? You lose your place. Try to navigate even a little bit and you get lost and have a hard time even finding the original article. Just completely and utterly unfortunate.
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