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I like the idea of static blogs like #octopress, but I sure hate the fact that they all use #disqus for comments.
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Got a better idea?
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@jfm You can set up ikiwiki to manage its own comments...
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@zooko I'm thinking along the lines of a self-hosted app that works much like Disqus, but can live in a self-contained virt appliance.
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@jfm can you self-host disqus? Alternately that's my suggestion, someone make a self-hostable modular commenting plugin.
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@jasonriedy Is ikiwiki static? I had no idea. @tychoish must have his auto-updating frequently. From post-commit hook?
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@kevingranade No, disqus is completely proprietary; I'm envisioning a work-alike.
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@kevingranade /me considers writing this as an opportunity to learn #Flask.
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@jfm Pretty much. Can mean slow-downs if you're not careful, but should work with all browsers w/o JS.
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@jfm an option is to move comments off-page eg an identi.ca thread like @bkuhn does http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/ ...
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@jfm ...off-page downside and effectively identi.ca user and already-federated-subscriber-only http://status.net/open-source/issues/2969
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@jfm I have also thought about building that, I haven’t found any good FLOSS alternatives to disqus, alas I haven’t…
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I'd be interested in helping with such a project, but it's probably impossible for a Disqus employee to do so :)
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@mlinksva That would be a nice approach, actually, if it could be made to work more transparently.
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@mllerustad I would assume so!
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@joar I doubt I have the time, either, but in principle it's not a terribly big job.
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Let’s get started then. Find me in #desqus on Freenode.
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Sadly, it's not practical for me to use IRC for collaboration.
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http://wndb.org/1l if that’s better.
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@joar Much, thank you.
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@jfm yeah ikiwiki is static, rebuilds on post-commit, build is largely incremental. I don't use comments.
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