gergelyke
Using GitHub for comments on your blog
Great idea Gergely. I guess you can add some cache layer to overcome/mitigate the rate limit issue if needed. 😉
Cool! I've done something similar with location based job board - https://github.com/idoco/GitMap
I do the same using a gatsby blog, where I import the comments only during a static build phase. It does mean that the comments on the blog is slow to update, but on the other hand, rate limiting is not an issue.
It also works for people without JS enabled.
I had this idea how to hijack 'commenting' engine from other platform as well 👯. good choice 😇
also okay at hosting images and cross-refs #1
funny, I was working on the same problem at exactly the same time! but I ended up using a SQLite db as backend and used Twitter and Github only for authentication.
I like how simple this is! escpecially since you get the nice github markdown editor for free. but I also like having comments on my server so I'm not tied to one particular api.
anyway, nice work!
Great idea, but is there a way to submit the comment from the actual website!?
you cannot do that, that would mean github is vulnerable against CSRF attacks
I would think with a "logg in using github" button, and some api magic it would work though? But the user would have to explicitly give permission to the page, so it's not really an attack. Would be kind of cool actually.