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Re: Komments – Simple comment embedding

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I asked this in the 'Komments' as well, but: Is there any option to export my site's Komments if I ever choose to leave?

Gonna reply here as well. For now I can do this manually for you. If there's gonna be a lot of people asking for it, will consider building an export feature.

It sometimes convinces me to go ahead with a service if I know I can get data out later down the line. It might be worth building it anyway to encourage more people to sign up, even if most users never end up using it.

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Why does it need these permissions for Twitter oauth? Read Tweets from your timeline. See who you follow.

Because the OAuth flow for "Sign In with Twitter" only has two permission levels to the account: read or write.

There is nothing more granular like "read only e-mail address and name". They're requesting the minimum possible access to your account already.

https://dev.twitter.com/oauth/reference/post/oauth/request_t...

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Add a WordPress plugin that replaces their comment system, the same way Disqus' does so, and you'll instantly work with over 1 in 5 sites on the web -- 80 million websites or so. If you really want this to take off, that'd be what gets the growth going and gives you a large enough userbase to figure out what's going to break and what features you need. It also addresses early adopter concerns about what happens if Komments goes away: a WordPress plugin can simultaneously store all the comments in the native format as well as in Komments so that it can be swapped out at any time.

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Add a WordPress plugin that replaces their comment system, the same way Disqus' does so, and you'll instantly work with over 1 in 5 sites on the web -- 80 million websites or so. If you really want this to take off, that'd be what gets the growth going and gives you a large enough userbase to figure out what's going to break and what features you need. It also addresses early adopter concerns about what happens if Ko…

That's actually a pretty good idea. Thanks.

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Add a WordPress plugin that replaces their comment system, the same way Disqus' does so, and you'll instantly work with over 1 in 5 sites on the web -- 80 million websites or so. If you really want this to take off, that'd be what gets the growth going and gives you a large enough userbase to figure out what's going to break and what features you need. It also addresses early adopter concerns about what happens if Ko…

There is also Isso, a open source and self-hosted comment tool that implements on your site just like Disqus.
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