My blog is fully static and I have a 50-line CF worker script that sends comments to me which I import directly to markdown of a blog post. There are ways to do comments without embedding.

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tclancy 14 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Would be cooler if it really was ColdFusion. Of course, 50 lines wouldn’t get you very far.

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sigmar 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Would be neat to automate the comment-with-markdown as a commit/PR? Like using Pull request as comment moderation

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JCattheATM 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Care to share a link or some more info?

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f311a 6 hours ago | parent [-]

How it works:

* CF worker on a subdomain that handles POST requests. Basically, a JS function that handles incoming requests.

* It stores comments in CF KV and sends me a copy to telegram

* All I need to do is copy it to Markdown (can be automated, but I manually approve the comments in case of spam)

* In Markdown, I'm using frontmatter to store arbitrary JSON data

* To avoid automated spam, I have a few tricks: do not expose the submit URL in HTML (insert it via JS) and calculate a simple checksum so that automated software that does not execute JS won't be able to post. Such software usually targets Wordpress blogs by scraping them from Google. I get zero spam from it.

Everything, including hosting and workers, costs me zero.

Example: https://rushter.com/blog/zsh-shell/

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MarcelOlsz 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>Everything, including hosting and workers, costs me zero.

Your setup sounds cool. Do you host it on a home lab or something?

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f311a 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Just a free plan on Cloudflare (CF in the comment above also means CloudFlare). Zero maintenance.

I push to Github and CF deploys static pages to CDN.

	▲	MarcelOlsz 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Ah awesome thanks. I've been using Netlify to do the same. CF scares me lol.

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JCattheATM 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Interesting, thanks!