Walktrough: How I am using Github for my blog comments

[eiriksm]

https://eiriksm.dev/walkthrough-github-comments

[gitressa]

Awesome, thanks for taking the time to share how to set up hosting comments on Gitlab! It's always nice to have several options to choose between.

[dasjo]

Interesting approach

[ElijahLynn]

Gotta test this UX out... Thanks for the post!

[ElijahLynn]

After I left the above comment, a ctrl + R refresh on the page didn't show the comment but a ctrl + shift + r refresh (skip cache) did show it.

I think a solution needs to be worked out so that a normal refresh shows new comments.

[ElijahLynn]

But the comment above worked fine after clicking the link in the issue comment above. So 🤷.

[eiriksm]

Thanks for the feedback! I do actually have automated tests for making sure it does not need a ctrl shift r refresh, so it could be caching on the server level too? Of course, the test could give a false positive too :) I will do some testing myself as well...

Thanks again for commenting! 🤓

[arafalov]

Interesting twist with live comments (I was waiting for the hook of some sort to trigger rebuild). But that means your home-page counts for the comments could be a bit out of sync with displayed counts on the page.

[eiriksm]

Yes, very good point, that is true. The count will be a bit out of sync. The count was actually added after this article was written, so that is why it is not mentioned. But when a comment is posted on this repo, it triggers a rebuild of the blog, so it should be a matter of minutes 😄

Thanks for commenting!