Explore comment-blocks for RSVPs

[carstingaxion]

Is your enhancement related to a problem? Please describe.

With the goal set, to transform RSVPs into regular comments (#687), GatherPress might be able to re-use some of the core/comments… blocks, as block-variations to archive the needed RSVP functionality.

This issue is meant as a first collection of related Infos:

• Webmentions are not handled properly by the comment blocks WordPress/gutenberg#58366
• Filter comments_array not called in render_block_core_comment_template() WordPress/gutenberg#47655
• Comments Form blocks WordPress/gutenberg#38107
• Block: Latest Comments - add filter for types of comments WordPress/gutenberg#33682

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[carstingaxion]

Congratulations @mauteri for finishing #692 (and #687) !

Based on your working branch I made some tests using the core/comment(s-...) blocks in combination with a pre_get_comments filter. This allowed me to use the default blocks with the new created RSVPs, which was nice.

I went on testing, added more interactivity to new variations of the core comments blocks one-by-one, which progressed nice & slowly, but it felt not correct, because this was far out of the GatherPress scope. A little more research proved me right: There was already & still is, an open PR adding this and more, core interactivity to the comment blocks.

Take a look at this amazing screencast (taken from the PR) and imagine, GatherPress could just create some block-variation and restrict the use to the new RSVP comment_type, like I did in my non-interactive beginning.

Screen.Capture.on.2023-08-16.at.15-32-27.mp4

This would be .... Wow! I think.

And it would allow GatherPress' RSVPs to benefit from all of the built-in and plugin-powered spam-protection and (some of) the core Discussion settings.