Various ways to include comments on a static site (2018)
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Re: Various ways to include comments on a static site (2018)
#2I'm the founder of Remarkbox. I want to make it clear why I went to a pay-what-you-can model, including free: https://www.remarkbox.com/remarkbox-is-now-pay-what-you-can....
Re: Various ways to include comments on a static site (2018)
#3On the "no comments" option:
> However, you won't be able to build a community with people interacting with one another.
I think that building a community and writing articles are different skill sets. Some very successful bloggers ("influencers" in modern slang) are able to do both but that's not the norm for most individuals.
Sure, it's fine when you're small and it's just a few people with similar interests. But once your audience starts to grow it can be really hard work to maintain a healthy community.
Re: Various ways to include comments on a static site (2018)
#4I'm the founder of Remarkbox. I want to make it clear why I went to a pay-what-you-can model, including free: https://www.remarkbox.com/remarkbox-is-now-pay-what-you-can....
Thanks for this post and for providing such a model. I've added a link in the Remarkbox section.
Re: Various ways to include comments on a static site (2018)
#5On the "no comments" option: > However, you won't be able to build a community with people interacting with one another. I think that building a community and writing articles are different skill sets. Some very successful bloggers ("influencers" in modern slang) are able to do both but that's not the norm for most individuals. Sure, it's fine when you're small and it's just a few people with similar interests. But o…
I'm in this situation:
- I want to start blogging
- I don't want to blog if I won't get any feedback on what people like to read
- I don't want to admin / moderate comments because it sounds like work
- I could rely on Reddit / HN threads, but that means I don't get comment threads until I reach a critical mass of popularity. Faster Than Lime will reach the front page every time, but I won't be putting in his level of effort, so I'll get buried in a couple hours if it even gets shared.
I don't even want a community, I just want someone to say, "Hey that's kinda neat". Maybe what I need is self-hosted Medium kudos?
Re: Various ways to include comments on a static site (2018)
#6I'm more of the opinion that if you're sharing something, especially in a blog, then you should never add a comment section. People don't comment unless they have a point that they want to put across, which in 99% of the cases will be something negative. Just look at HN and (ugh) Twitter -- almost every discussion revolves around people trying to find things to complain about.
I instead share a contact e-mail. This works as a good deterrent to filter the pointless complainers, while still allowing those who truly need to contact me to have a way to do so.
EDIT: Just might need to clarify that I don't mean that HN is overwhelmingly negative, just that the comments usually revolve about nitpicking terms and concepts which would fall into the concept of something "negative".
Re: Various ways to include comments on a static site (2018)
#7On the "no comments" option: > However, you won't be able to build a community with people interacting with one another. I think that building a community and writing articles are different skill sets. Some very successful bloggers ("influencers" in modern slang) are able to do both but that's not the norm for most individuals. Sure, it's fine when you're small and it's just a few people with similar interests. But o…
I'm in this situation: - I want to start blogging - I don't want to blog if I won't get any feedback on what people like to read - I don't want to admin / moderate comments because it sounds like work - I could rely on Reddit / HN threads, but that means I don't get comment threads until I reach a critical mass of popularity. Faster Than Lime will reach the front page every time, but I won't be putting in his level o…
Maybe leave an email address for people to contact you? Otherwise you pretty much have to do moderation. Good thing is for a small blog there likely won't be very much!
Re: Various ways to include comments on a static site (2018)
#8Comments are helpful to get feedback and fix typos on my posts, but I turned it off on my blog after over 100k comments approved manually in the last 20+ years because of a spam issue. I got 400 spam comments per minute despite using the paid version of Akismet and keyword block list on a self-hosted WordPress blog.
Re: Various ways to include comments on a static site (2018)
#9I'm more of the opinion that if you're sharing something, especially in a blog, then you should never add a comment section. People don't comment unless they have a point that they want to put across, which in 99% of the cases will be something negative. Just look at HN and (ugh) Twitter -- almost every discussion revolves around people trying to find things to complain about. I instead share a contact e-mail. This w…
that's a really overly negative view. You can be part of a healthy (small?) community and have normal interaction with your commenters or with the writer, as a commenter.
Maybe the trick is to not get to real success numbers, but I could think of dozens of blogs I read with 0-10 comments per post and no discernible amount of trolling, spamming (well, automated tools help ofc) and so on.
Re: Various ways to include comments on a static site (2018)
#10I'm more of the opinion that if you're sharing something, especially in a blog, then you should never add a comment section. People don't comment unless they have a point that they want to put across, which in 99% of the cases will be something negative. Just look at HN and (ugh) Twitter -- almost every discussion revolves around people trying to find things to complain about. I instead share a contact e-mail. This w…
I haven't had a positive experience with comments on my site (I took them out the other day) but I also didn't have a negative one. Usually people either posted a comment to thank me, or to note something, or to ask a question.
I removed the comments because I realized that they weren't worth the extra JS on the page and hassle of moderation.