Show HN: Free comments section for personal sites(blog.bhread.com) I've been working on creating threaded blog posts using RSS feeds. Something similar to Twitter but kind of worse and better in its own way. I had an idea that if users are allowed to embed the threads to their posts, it acts like a simple comment section. Try it out, no accounts required. |
An idea I have is to implement a publicly-viewable ban list. Possibly a file like `bans.txt` available in the public repo which anyone can discuss and add suggestions. This will be a list of domains which Bhread and other instances can reference as an 'ignore' list.
I'm open for ideas. I'm still looking for other options.
In the future, I might come up with something that integrates Webmention for sites that already have them.
One of the pros is that it is super fast to set up and free in most cases.
I tried it on Zola, works great and I love it, but it still requires JavaScript, will keep it in the meantime, if someone knows something else that works without JavaScript that would be appreciated!
You can’t use “px” in height attr.
Do I need a blog somewhere to leave a comment?
This may give you a better overview: https://github.com/elpachongco/bhread?tab=readme-ov-file#abo...
Thanks for checking this out. Believe it or not, this is good feedback for me to improve user-facing documentation and general UX.
Very confusing. I gave up trying to figure out how to comment, or sign up
I appreciate the feedback especially the detailed description of your interaction with the site. This is helpful for me so I can create a better experience for new users.
I'm thinking of a blog post on your personal site saying "That is no nice!" without any context. How does that work?
I've considered this, Bhread detects replies when another site publishes a post containing this:
- A string: "replying to "
- followed by a link to the the one they're replying to
I think this is enough to provide context but it's still early to tell if that's effective.
But if you mean something else, it would be nice if you can tell me why. I'll do my best to address it.
Anyway, I would have expected to not see the marketing page when I clicked the "post" link. I already care about learning how to post / add this to my site, you don't need to sell me anything more right now. I would have liked to learn more about how posting would work since I already learned how to add the iframe and that was easy.
I think this is an interesting concept but you might want to include this info in your show hn post, including this info youve just shared about how bhread detects replies. Otherwise, I had no idea how any of this works even after looking through several pages on the site.
I'm out of the edit window now so I'll answer your question here.
There's a page for RSS feed submission: https://bhread.com/feeds/
And for more details about bhread, I have a blog post that may help (how to participate, and why): https://blog.bhread.com/posts/about-bhread/
In the future, I'll add a page that will get new users up to speed in a single place. Everything's scattered right now and pasting links is getting old for me.
Anyways, thank you for the feedback and suggestions, I'm taking notes.