issue no. 0011
Comment Sections Are Essential for News Sites. We’re Making Changes to Improve Ours.
While many other news organizations have abolished their comment sections, we are taking steps to make ours better.
Anonymity and Online Commenting: The Broken Windows Effect and the End of Drive-by Commenting
As part of the Digital Library's transition to Open Access, new features for researchers are available in the Premium Edition. Click here to learn more.
Anonymity and Online Commenting: The Broken Windows Effect and the End of Drive-by Commenting
As part of the Digital Library's transition to Open Access, new features for researchers are available in the Premium Edition. Click here to learn more.
Yap: a particular kind of slop
Writing code comments has always been hard, because communicating is hard. It's hard to not assume context. It's hard to use the right terminology consistently. It's hard to even put comments in the right spots to begin with. It generally takes me several iterations of rewording a comment to get something I'm happy with. I'll write something lousey that takes 5 times as long to read as it should, and then read it. Then I'll remove a couple sentences, tweak what remains and do it again.
RFC - Request for comments
RFC - Request for comments
RFC - Request for comments
RFC - Request for comments
RFC - Request for comments
Ascetic Computing - ratfactor
I recently came across a comment I’d written in a configuration file. It was above some commented-out lines. It said:
We Fought the Comment Spam (and the Comment Spam Didn't Win)
When we noticed that comment quality was rapidly declining on the blog, we decided to do something about it. And that something didn't involve closing comments, but improving them.
Comments are a basic web feature. So why aren’t they solved on ATProto yet?
Comments are about as old and basic as the social web gets, so I assumed ATProto would have them figured out. It doesn’t, not yet. Here is my take on why standard.site deferred comments on pu…
Mozilla and the Washington Post Are Reinventing Online Comments | The Mozilla Blog
To engage readers, build community, and strengthen journalism, Mozilla’s open-source commenting platform will be integrated across washingtonpost.com
atproto-comments
Renders an AT Protocol (Bluesky) thread as a comment section. Supports SSR, sign-in, replies, and live updates.
Inspired by @danielroe.dev I added comments functionality to my portfolio using barebones AT Protocol query. Definitely not necessary, but amazing that it's even possible 😅
