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Allow users to comment on blog posts

Currently there’s no plan to add comment boxes due to the ease of them to be exploited by spammers and bots. Even with Captchas, etc, stuff creeps in and needs to have moderators. This is dangerous as it has the ability to pollute the domain name if not caught early. Since I’m the sole maintainer here I have the ability to vet blogs before they go live (about 30% of them are spam blogs), but I certainly won’t be able to vet all comments.

The best I can suggest is, at the bottom of your blog post, have a “Discuss on Twitter” (or reddit) link and post a link to the article on Twitter to start a thread.

Maybe an alternative can be integrating with comment embeds like Disqus

I think just encouring the reader to send a mail to the author which they can then post as a comment themselves in the actual blog. For low-scale at least I think this can work fine, as I have seen on multiple other blogs before.

Lots of good ideas here, it’ll be great if the developer considers them. I’d really for my blog to have comments!

+1 for integration with external comment services

NO comments needed. This is the tiny web, way better to encourage the user to spark up a conversations through email one-to-one. Discussions can be done elsewhere on the web, plenty of options.

Please, no comments, 3rd party comment embeds, etc. I came here and acquired lifetime access for the tiny web, lean space this is. I don’t understand why people come here, choose this for what it is, but then want to turn it into what all the other sites are.

No comments, please. If you want comments here you are probably in the wrong place. (Or upgrade your account and use embed-able comment system, like Herman said above).

Tiny web - No comments needed - Plenty of other social media platforms out there for those in need of commenting.

I updated my previous comment to offer ideas that can work for both groups without changes to Bearblog needed 😊

Comments are a curse. Thanks for the “won’t fix”!

Dear X
Let me kindly remind you that you are, right now, yourself commenting on a topic - expressing your feelings.

If you think about your first statement - and then about the value of your comment to others - you might find contradiction within your words and actions.

Glad to hear it. There’s a time and place for discussion and commenting online. It shouldn’t have to be everywhere.

An alternative could be to use something like “webmention“ which I saw over at https://indieweb.org/Webmention