It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. — Eleanor Roosevelt
A built-in commenting system is one of the reasons people reach for WordPress (and often stay there long-term). While I do think having a comment system is compelling (and as big of a fan of building on WordPress as I am), I find the comments system on WordPress quite crusty. It needs some love! There is so much more potential there! Here’s my list.… Read article “My WordPress Comments Wishlist”
One of the arguments against the Jamstack approach for building websites is that developing features gets complex and often requires a number of other services. Take commenting, for example. To set up commenting for a Jamstack site, you often need a third-party solution such as Disqus, Facebook, or even just a separate database service. That third-party solution usually means your comments live disconnected from their content.
When we use third-party systems, we have to live with the trade-offs … Read article “How to Create a Commenting Engine with Next.js and Sanity”
JAMstack sites are often seen as being static. A more accurate mental model for them would be that they are sites which have the ability to be hosted statically. The difference might seem semantic, but thanks to the rise of many tools and services which simplify running a build and deploying to static hosting infrastructure, such sites can feel much fresher and dynamic than you might imagine, while still capable of being served from static hosting infrastructure, with all … Read article “JAMstack Comments”
Akismet is an incredible spam preventer for WordPress sites. I’d say it does 95% of the work for us. A few issues though make me want to augment it with other tools:
We get a decent amount of comments on blog posts right here on CSS-Tricks (thanks!), but I’d also say the hay day for that is over. These days, if someone writes some sort of reaction to a blog post, it could be on their own blog, or more likely, on some social media site. It makes sense. That’s their home base and it’s more useful to them to keep their words there.
It’s a shame, though. This fragmented conversation is … Read article “Implementing Webmentions”
Lately, I’ve been obsessed with optimizing performance through lazy-loading. Recently, I’ve written on how to lazy-load Google Maps and on how to lazy-load responsive Google Adsense. Now it’s time for Disqus, a service for embedding comments on your website. It’s a great service. It eliminates the headache of developing your own local commenting system, dealing with spam, etc. Recently, I’ve been working on implementing the widget in one of my projects.… Read article “Lazy-Loading Disqus Comments”
Read Christie Aschwanden’s first paragraph. If you’ve written anything that elicits comments, I’m sure you can relate.
There is plenty of data here to digest, and also further speculation:
… Read article “We Asked 8,500 Internet Commenters Why They Do What They Do”I had a hypothesis: Maybe this commenting-without-reading phenomenon represents a variation of the backfire effect, in which a person who receives evidence that their belief is erroneous actually becomes more strongly convinced of the viewpoint they already held. In this case, the reader sees a headline that catches their interest and
As part of a series on the rising global phenomenon of online harassment, the Guardian commissioned research into the 70m comments left on its site since 2006 and discovered that of the 10 most abused writers eight are women, and the two men are black. Hear from three of those writers, explore the data and help us host better conversations online
Nice to see some real research corroborate what so many people have felt to be be true.
In this pairing screencast, Sarah Drasner joins me and guides me through some of my very first learnings of React. We tackle some “real world” style functionality: a comment form.
This turned out to be a pretty useful bit of UI to work with, as it required a lot of things rather fundamental to React (or at least, it seems to me). For example, a master “App” that deals with the state (our big “state” thing is the comments themselves) … Read article “#147: Starting a React-Powered Comment Form”
