A blog should have comments, there is no real point in blogging if nobody can interact with you / with each other about what you are sharing. Since this blog is fully static, I’ve been looking for an embeddable comment system.
I don’t want to use disqus, it’s free because your data is the product, I have no control over it and I just don’t like what they do overall.
I’ve looked at isso but it’s not customisable enough for my needs and it’s too complex, not handy enough.
So I’ve decided to write my own. Except I started 2 months ago and have made about 0 progress (as I do with most of my personal projects). I think announcing I’m working on something and just putting it out there might push me to care about it some more in my free time.
I decided to name the project Kek, just because it sounds appropriate. It’ll be written in Java and the focus will be on security, configurability and deployment ease. I also want users to be able to share instances (one server, multiple sites). The first version will contain only the basics, I’ll probably add a web admin afterward.
Another important thing about that project, is the opt-out feature I want to implement. Once a user opts-out, nothing will be loaded, like, nada, no additional request will be sent out, leaving the site as if it never had any comment system to begin with.
1if (localStorage.getItem("opt-out")) {
2 return;
3}
4
5// Load kek...