Hi parsec, thanks for the favourable comment. I can understand wariness about putting a mailto: link on the public internet. But in my experience (yours might be different of course) it doesn't bring much spam, less than two a month in my case. Yes, please do add comments to your page, the more the better!
I still haven't got around to implementing a version of this in Python (made a few steps, but "life, uh, gets in the way"). But one of the things I'm considering (other than normalizing timezones) is that this implementation adds all comments to a single "comment page" on the site, I'd rather have a comment section on each post / page, like ~parsec says. I'll probably drop title support and have the subject be the URL or some otehr identifier. Speaking of that, I don't think the "barnold" part in "Comment barnold" is really necessary. And in order to not get match actual emails talking about other kinds of comments, I'd use a different flag. Sorry, I've started brainstorming on a blog comment page >_<'
That's a great idea to avoid spam without relying on those awful third party services like Disqus or easily spammed web forms, although I think putting mailto anywhere is a bit risky. Maybe I'll add something similar to my page allowing replies to specific posts, if I get bored and can figure out how your scripts work.
> I've had more response to my tildeverse > stuff in the last week than in years before that I have had this account since December, but I only started actively using it (logging into the systems) somewhere around last month, and I think it were your messages about this comment system that were the spark that actually made me dive into this community. I am still very much a newbie, not on Linux / CLI / shell / server management / "retro tech" things, but on the tildeverse and similar groups and communities. The most "hardcore geek" community I've been a part of in so many years was answering questions on Stack Overflow, but this community is bringing back a LOT of old memories about things that I considered lost to the dust of time -- like dial up BBS'es, evening and nights on mIRC, reading newsgroups, etc. It's refreshing to see the inquisitive and trailblazing spirit of the "web 0.1", early internet days still alive in those little corners of the net!
Hi rdlmda, > having each comment date shown on a different timezone is so very > confusing for the reader! It does look a bit messy... but then, we live in a messy world! I actually like getting a very vague idea of where the commenter mailed from. Well, that's one excuse anyway. I'm afraid also I'm not yet brave enough to try to switch to a single timezone. This is all the result of attempting "the simplest thing that can possibly work" because I'm lazy :) > making me want to write a different implementation of this This I applaud! Frank Seifferth offered the first one, in python which I don't know. I attempted this one in what might be the world's least fashionable languages, bash and perl. Give it a go in your own way, I'd love to see it. And thanks for your comments. I've had more response to my tildeverse stuff in the last week than in years before that. The more comment-enabled tildeverse sites, the better!
Where it reads "it's making me write" it should be "making me want to write".
I see what you mean, and it makes sense on the "incoming" side of things, but on the "reading" side of things, having each comment date shown on a different timezone is so very confusing for the reader! If it were me I'd conver them to a single timezone, either UTC or the reader's timezone (using JS? I haven't put much thought about it). Damn, it's making me write a different implementation of this, just for fun (*) (*) for broad, geekish, masochistic definitions of "fun"
For how it works, take a look on my home page, I put some notes there. About the timezone, I'm claiming it's already showing your chosen timezone! The datetime of the comment gets copied from the Date: header in the email, so it's set by the sender's email client. <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5322#section-3.3> says "The date and time-of-day SHOULD express local time." They didn't actually say *whose* local time but I think they meant the sender.
Maybe the timezones could be converted on-the-fly to the visitor's timezone? Or, at least, converted all to UTC? As it is now, some are in UTC, some are UTC+7.
This is an interesting concept. How does it work?
Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself. :-) -- Larry Wall in <199708261932.MAA05218@wall.org>
" Clever" might do it too much credit :) It survived again without collapsing!
Well now, I suppose it's a good day to try to leave a comment using brittle but very clever means devised by barnold. Have a great day!
Still holding up so far! More comments welcome!
Hi there! I was glad to see your latest message, so here I am, writing a test message that says hello, and not much more. Cheers,
HCMC 16:33 ICT ► 30.0°C ◆ Rain ◆ 22Km/h SW ◆ 73% RH
<<<hello>>>
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