local comments

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local comments are comments (sometimes called native comments) that are made directly (locally) on a post (like an article) in the UI of the site serving it, instead of posting a reply post on an indieweb site and sending a webmention.

IndieWeb Examples

Known

Known (optionally) supports local comments using almost the same mechanism as comments received by webmentions. A local comment is given its own permalink URL, where it is the top-level item on the page, on the receiving site.

• e.g. http://known.kevinmarks.com/2014/trying-out-the-known-version-of-indieweb/annotations/1fdc8926b9307d390ce2a69f271e4fc4 is a comment on http://known.kevinmarks.com/2014/trying-out-the-known-version-of-indieweb

gRegor Morrill

gRegor Morrill supports local comments on gregorlove.com (again) as of 2016-03-21. Local comments were accepted previously from 2002 to 2015. The hiatus was due to switching from Nucleus to ProcessWire and working on making local comments work more seamlessly with the ProcessWire webmention plugin.

• Uses CSRF token protection.
• Uses Akismet, logging likely spam comments; no comment moderation.
• Uses an extra, hidden form input to prevent spam. If the form field is filled in, the comment is rejected with HTTP 403.

rubenwardy

rubenwardy supports local comments on blog.rubenwardy.com since 2023-05-07 (first comment on 2023-05-24). Webmentions are also supported. The blog itself is statically hosted. Local comments are POSTed to an express server running on api.rubenwardy.com (source). Comments are then manually moderated before being added to the static site

Uses an extra, hidden (with CSS) form input to prevent spam. If the form field is filled in, the comment is rejected with HTTP 500.

More info: https://blog.rubenwardy.com/2023/10/10/hello-indieweb/#comment-form

News Media Examples

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There are still many online news media sites that accept local comments. Please note them below in one subsection per organization.

Dropped local comments

Some sites have explicitly made the decision to drop local comments, for various reasons.

OregonLive

• 2019-12-29 OregonLive eliminates comments, joining other media organizations

  Some of these conversations are uncivil, even downright nasty at times. Moderating the comments for off-topic posts or personal attacks takes time and resources that are better spent producing independent local news.

See Also

• reply
• comments
• Penny Arcade, a multi-author site that does not accept comments from readers, uses local comments for the authors to have public discussions with eachother. E.g. Replies section of Hanna! (archived)
• 2023-10-16 Jason Kottke: Introducing the New Kottke.org Comments
  • Community Guidelines for Kottke.org
  • 2023-10-20 Jason Kottke: How's Everyone Liking the Comments?
    • Jason Kottke, writing in a comment that he also uses comments himself for adding things to posts:

      I wanted to add that I've (somewhat sneakily) been using comments to add context and links to the original post using updates, even when the thread isn't open. For instance, this post on Estonia's mass transit fares.