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2024-11-20

💬 Thinking About Comments Again

• 1 Google search
• 1 blog post: https://blog.bartekr.net/2021/01/17/testing-utterances-comments/
  • 2 test comments
• A visit to https://utteranc.es/
• An easily generated script tag:

<script src="https://utteranc.es/client.js"  
  repo="bagrounds/obsidian-github-publisher-sync"  
  issue-term="pathname"  
  label="utterances"  
  theme="preferred-color-scheme"  
  crossorigin="anonymous"  
  async>  
</script>  

• A trivial commit (yes, straight to the main branch; no PR ☠️)
• And voila: comments!
• … And then notice a bug…
  • and that utterances is not longer maintained
  • so follow the GitHub issues to Giscus!
  • generate a new, very similar script tag:

<script src="https://giscus.app/client.js"  
  data-repo="bagrounds/obsidian-github-publisher-sync"  
  data-repo-id="R_kgDOLuWiLA"  
  data-category="Announcements"  
  data-category-id="DIC_kwDOLuWiLM4Ckd0H"  
  data-mapping="pathname"  
  data-strict="1"  
  data-reactions-enabled="1"  
  data-emit-metadata="0"  
  data-input-position="top"  
  data-theme="preferred_color_scheme"  
  data-lang="en"  
  crossorigin="anonymous"  
  async>  
</script>  

• make another trivial commit straight to main
• migrate my first comment to a discussion
• and voila: better comments!