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Rohit Singh
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Thu, 09 Aug 2007
Comments Turned On Now
After GoogleDude bugged me for the n-th time about
comments("It's not a blog if it doesn't allow comments!"), I decided
to figure out a way that'd turn them on without the spam. I like using
Blosxom (the Python port PyBlosxom seems better maintained these days) for generating
this blog, since it lets
me create the blog just as I like. It is a simple script, fairly clean
and easy to use. For each new post, I just create a simple text file; the first line
of the file is the post's title. Very simple. I've complete flexibility
in designing the entire blog-page (yes, it was designed at a time when I
was really enamored with light-on-black color schemes).
However, commenting is Blosxom's bane. It can do comments but it's not built to deal with spam. Last time I checked, I found it hard to set up user accounts or captchas etc. in Blosxom. Still, just for kicks, I turned on comments a year or so ago. Within days, there was just too much spam. So I closed off the comments.
Today, I remembered that you can host comments etc. on a 3-party website. Haloscan's a really cool solution for people like me. In my templates, I just put in Javascript blocks that pull in the comment link and the number of comments currently posted. Haloscan handles comment creation, comment storage, user-accounts, spam etc. Easy.