Importing comments into static sites... what to do?

maiki
Tue, 23 Jan 2018 20:25:44 +0000
Webcraft

I am finally getting my content sorted on interi, where I am moving the 1,200 or so posts, and either putting them on maiki.blog or in a memo section on interi. The level of technical detail determines what becomes a memo, and a very early one is up at https://interi.org/memo/internet-telephony/.

Aside: haha, ten years ago I was having the same issues, different providers.

Okay, there are a few copies of that document floating around, one such being at https://maiki.blog/2007/11/internet-telephony/, where you can see it has a few comments, from a discussion started by @tim.

I find Tim’s first sentiment to be relevant to the information value of the document. How do I incorporate that into the static page now? I have a feeling I am going to be asking this question a lot as I process the archive.

Do I copy and paste comments into content of the document?

Talkgroup will be around, do I faux-copy the comments in place, and recreate those threads… no, that is silly.

One thing I’ve considered in a different context is in lieu of comments: having responders just submit a patch to insert their comment (either as an isolated piece of content, or by changing the narrative facts). Then they could add their name to the authors list for that page.

That is kinda neat, applied to this, because it means I would be thinking about their comments critically, incorporating it into my original docs, and then reach out to them individually for inclusion as an author on the site… that is really neat!

Okay, I will probably do that, but glad to have worked it out in typing this. I will post it after all.

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