I would love to see something like Banter available for websites to drop in as a comment system, similar to how Disqus functions today.
For those who have not seen or do not remember Banter, it was a proof of concept from @hank showing off how Radiks could be used to make a simple social network.
On the integration side, I would like to see something as simple as adding a javascript and css file, passing in my config parameters, then having access to a web component to include below areas that I want to place comments. The css should be easily identifiable or easy to override to make it fit within the site.
As a user, I would like to see a consistent interface where you can authenticate with your Stacks ID, then post a comment that pulls some basic items like profile picture and general information alongside any comments you make.
Other nice-to-haves would be:
a mechanism for comment moderation by the site owner
a mechanism for upvote/downvote by site owner or users
support for sanitized markdown in comments for that extra style
I’m sure there is more that could be built on top of that, and I’m open to feedback from anyone interested as well as willing to review interfaces or test code where possible.
I see two parts here that can be addressed in two grants
Creating and storing a comment on the users storage and
aggregating and filtering/moderating the comments across all users.
Creating comments could be something general, like embedding NoteRiot by @dant on a website. User will then have a list of all comments they left on any site, really owning their content.
After creating comments, the user would signal that this comment/note belongs to a certain content URL, i.e. a blog or video. WebMentions could be a suitable protocol, see for example https://indieweb.org/Webmention for existing examples using webmention.io (and brid.gy for bridging to existing social networks).
Aggregating the signalled comments is the task of the content/blog/video owner and depends a lot on the publishing software. Maybe Sigle by @leopradel could add a webmention endpoint as a first step.
I would love to see the concept as an app like Disqus to add comments easily.
I am not super familiar about webmentions, I saw it integrated into some sites but I thought it was only to aggregate comments from social media . So you can actually use it with comments stored on any storage?
Yes, webmention is only about signalling to an original author that that related comments to the original content were published. The aggregation is not part of the protocol and the original author is free to censor or order the comments.
This is what happens in banter/Radiks as well. The user is signalling to radiks that new content is available on the user’s storage, then banter is fetching and aggregating it…
I would like to have the ability to add comments to media posted on gaideo. When I was thinking about doing this myself, a lot of the problems discussed here came up that needed to be solved. In gaideo’s architecture users store their data and share things to friends in their friend list. Data stored by other users who are friends of the logged in user get aggregated client-side via a background web worker into indexdb in the browser. I could see comments being done in a similar way. The order and visibility of a comment could be control by the user the comment is “attached to”, but the content would be stored with the user who created the comment.
The real time aspect would have to be solved with a signaling mechanism of some kind or through background polling in the web worker that aggregates data into indexdb.
. So you can actually use it with comments stored on any storage?