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Re: Utterances – a lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues

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Post by nsonha » Fri, Nov 12, 2021, 10:10 AM UTC

contravariant wrote: post #16

_fat_santa wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's not to like about a service like Disqus? /s

Actually, does anyone mind answering this question (non-sarcastically)? I'd be pretty interested in the answer.

if your content is in github then there is a benefit to having content and comments in the same place.

Otherwise it's still a good thing to have your comments in a repo because it'll live forefer and can be replicated anywhere.

Re: Utterances – a lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues

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Post by remram » Fri, Nov 12, 2021, 2:00 PM UTC

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25570268 " Adding comments to a static blog with Mastodon"

Using the platforms people already use to discuss to host your comments is a great idea!

Re: Utterances – a lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues

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Post by bobx11 » Fri, Nov 12, 2021, 2:04 PM UTC

I am looking for something like this, but I’m the format of the intercom.io chat widget, so we can take issues directly about our mvp sites and respond through gh issues.

So far, looks like I’ll need to make it custom, unless someone knows of an existing tool.

Re: Utterances – a lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues

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Post by randomluck040 » Mon, Nov 15, 2021, 9:52 PM UTC

john_cogs wrote: post #18

randomluck040 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Hey there, I'm on the Community Relations team at GitLab. I'd love to learn more about your experience as a member of the GitLab community. When you say that opening an issue on GitLab doesn't make you feel part of a community, are you referring issues on one of GitLab's projects (ex: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab ) or are you referring to issues on open source projects being hosted on GitLab.com? Community is…

Hey John, I'm sorry for answering this late. I haven't figured out a way to get notified about replies to my comments so here I am, backtracking what I have commented within the last few days. Sorry!

I'm referring to issues on open source projects hosted on GitLab.com so I think what this is about is out of your scope in some way? Also I've noticed that my initial comment is probably biased heavily by the projects I tend to follow on GitHub and GitLab. Gigantic projects (e.g. Inkscape vs. PyTorch) aren't different for me due to the active communities and after a second thought I have to admit that a lot of projects I follow and software I work with (PyTorch, Tensorflow as well as smaller ones like Potree, pyAIS, MIDI2LR) seem to live on GitHub. That's how some projects I did end up being on GitHub as well. On the other side me and my working group believe in Open Source so larger projects tend to end up on GitLab.

I'm not even sure if it helps but I didn't want to leave it "unanswered".