While many other news organizations have abolished their comment sections, we are taking steps to make ours better.
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.
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
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.” […]
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.
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.
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...
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.
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…
atproto-comments
Renders an AT Protocol (Bluesky) thread as a comment section. Supports SSR, sign-in, replies, and live updates.
RFC - Request for comments
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