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 Dead, Long Live Comments - AVC
Yet another mainstream media site took down comments this week. In the post explaining the move, Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher explained that “as social media has continued its robust growth, the bulk of discussion of our stories is increasingly taking place there, making onsite comments less and less used and less and less useful.” […]
A Brief History of the End of the Comments
For years, comment boxes have been a staple of the online experience. Now many media companies are giving up on them.
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.
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
Using Bluesky posts as blog comments
As a fast-follow to the blog post from earlier today on the benefits of an open network, here's a concrete example. Your blog's comment section can be pulled directly from Bluesky.
The .blog Bait & Switch
The .blog registry backtracked on its promise to send popular domains to auction.
ATF public comments analysis 2026-08
Here are some of the best and most interesting ideas from The Guardian’s comments-focused hack day
The Guardian is trying to hack its way into better comments. Since yesterday, The Guardian has assembled its developers and product managers for another one of its two-day hack events, which it holds every three to six months. This time around, it's focusing its efforts on comments and figuring …
How I added a comments section to my blog, using Bluesky - Matteo Marjanovic
In this article I tell the story of how I created Juttu, an open source software that lets you use Bluesky posts as comments for your blog.
What's with "Discuss on Mastodon"?
Originally I thought about giving this thread a more general title like “indie web comment options,” but then I figured let’s cut to the chase: I want to understand the prevalence of Mastodon links being used at the end of indie web posts in place of a comment section. Here are some posts about using Mastodon as an alternative to a comment section: Murteza Yesil: How do I comment/reply to your posts? Beetle Space: Adding Fediverse Comments to My Static Site Beej’s Bit Bucket: Mastodon Comment...
Want to Save the Comments From Trolls? Do It Yourself
A startup called Civil has a new plan to make comments more, well...
think I've got a reasonable-ish solution sketched out to the atproto blog comments problem (and standard.site recommends and follows, kinda just fell out of that) involving a lot of iframes that mitigates some of the worst risks there in the event of an evil blogger. Now I have to implement it. :-(
