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by ja3k • 5 years ago

21 11 5 years ago

I like projects like this; totally unnecessary, but fun in a kind of absurd way.

I tried to post a comment but I didn’t really want to fork your repo, is there no other way of doing it thru github’s api?

NoahKAndrews• 5 years ago

The commit has to be in someone's repo, and GitHub can't reasonably allow you to push to a branch on the original repo, so you have to make a fork.

ja3k2• 5 years ago

Thanks! Yeah it was fun to do. Once I had the idea I felt compelled to implement it.

It is a little wasteful to fork the whole repo to make a comment. But it seems unavoidable with this design.

Operyl3• 5 years ago

Forks don’t actually create a copy of the git objects, so effectively it’s just a row in the database.

john-doe2• 5 years ago

I wouldn’t say unnecessary; most available comment systems are either a Discuss-style firehose of tracking scripts, or a pain to maintain when self-hosted.

Operyl3• 5 years ago

This almost feels like it might be a bit cleaner opening an "Issue" per blog post/article post, automated via GH:Actions.

ja3k2• 5 years ago

I posted it to /r/github and someone let me know such a thing already exists: https://utteranc.es/ A little cleaner than what I've done here.

john-doe2• 5 years ago

And its clone https://giscus.app/ using Github Discussions instead.

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