Commenting

First things first. I forgot to actually link to the new About page in my last post. So here it is . As with all things related to the site, any feedback, comments, or criticisms are welcome!

Speaking of feedback, comments, and criticisms, I wanted to write about it for a moment.

First, I want to thank everyone who has taken the time to contact me and provide me feedback on the site. You have no idea how valuable it is to both as a motivator, and as a means to know when something is off. I appreciate and give my full attention to each and every person and idea thrown at me. Thank you!

From the beginning I have been considering how to let everyone interact with the site and posts. It would be so much easier for folks to leave a comment on a page (or forum) directly. Particularly if it allows everyone to view the conversation.

Disqus

One thing I could do relatively easily is just use a third party commenting system, like Disqus . They make it so easy it almost seems silly not to do it. An account, a few lines of javascript, and done.

This method comes with a price, though. A price in both user privacy concerns as well as the fact that comments are no longer mine (pixls.us) to manage and archive. I don’t know that I’m willing to pay that price yet just for convenience.

If anything, I may set it up as a temporary solution while I work on something a little more long term.

Discourse

From what I’ve seen so far, Discourse is the long term solution that I would like to get up and running. It’s also “Yet-Another-Thing” I should thank darix on #darktable for pointing me to.

The only drawback at the moment is that my hosting provider doesn’t have what I need to get it running (relatively easily). There are a couple of options for hosted solutions that I may go with, but I want to focus on getting the content ready to go for an “official” launch before I get too far down that rabbit hole.

Conclusion

Yes, I know there’s a need for having some sort of commenting system available for everyone to participate! I’ll get one running just as soon as I can.