Comments or forum in a Tiddlyhost wiki

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#1

Hi, I’d like to use comments or a forum with my wiki on tiddlyhost. I’ve tried the comments plugin which I like, but it only works when I’m logged in on the platform because READONLY is the default mode over there (with which I’m fine).

Do I have to use IntenseDebate, Disqus or Github Comments or is there a another more privacy-oriented solution out there with a uncomplicated integration?

Thanks for any suggestions :diya_lamp:

#2

some have been used in the past. if you find one you would like to embed, find the installation details they provide and ask us here if you need help. the raw tags help.

#3

Thank you. I read your former posts on the topic and it seems to be a rather neglected or not much wanted feature in TW use. I’ve now decided to open an external forum and just put an iframe with my forum’s front feed in a tiddler called ‘Forum’. It will do for the beginning.

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#4

Unsure if this would still be useful to you when you’ve already found a solution, but to anyone else who may be curious about commenting systems, the one I personally use is G-Comments by twMat. It works quite well and has been one of my favored community solutions. Can’t say how privacy-oriented it is when it relies on Google services, but for a relatively painless setup that requires no logins for end users & can be extended for purposes beyond mere comments, it’s probably the best one out there (that I know of).

Its main limitation, which is either an issue or a benefit depending on your particular needs, is that the plugin cannot retrieve comments from your form’s sheet; it is only made for submitting them. This works out for me because any comments with spam or unsavory material aren’t immediately displayed to the public, and I can just import the ones I approve of manually (I created a tool for myself to do this, this does not come with G-Comments). It also does not have any infrastructure for styling and displaying imported comments, which is a disadvantage if you just want something to work start to end out of the box - or an advantage if you love tinkering like me.

If you want to see the system in action or try it out yourself, a very customized “start to end” implementation is used in several of my project sites:

  • Devius Ex Machina, for viewers to submit comments about the material like the plugin was originally made for. It additionally takes advantage of the way G-Comments pre-fills answers for tiddler names by extending the same functionality to the submitter’s name if they so choose to fill one in on the website.
    • The way the website handles displaying comments through ViewTemplates and styling them is all hand-made and/or cobbled together from other solutions, such as using the kin filter operator by bimlas for recursively counting how many comments and replies to those comments were made under a page.
  • BlinkieWiki, which modified the plugin for users to submit metadata for graphics and suggested webgraphic creators. The metadata submission is accessed by clicking on a graphic in search results and then clicking the top right button that says “Submit metadata for this graphic…”.
    • A forewarning that this site is very laggy. It is quite large at >30,000 tiddlers and uses complex filtering from a custom search interface to return results on the fly. It has not been fully optimized for performance yet with all the tricks I know about now.
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