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Daring Fireball with Comments as a Safari extension

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Yup, the comments on that link prove why DF shouldn't ever get comments, just like daringfireballwithcomments did.

I think this has much more potential than a 3rd party site. Particularly after the novelty wears down.

I am interested to see Gruber's reaction. If we start seeing high quality comments and engagement from interesting people with something to say it'll be hard for Gruber to ignore.

He's probably asking himself right now "What Would Jobs Do?"

"Not interested, sorry." He could even quote the man.

I don't think those comments are that bad, at all, yet.

What's the point of blog comments when the blog author isn't going to read them, respond to them, delete the spam and other undesirable comments, etc?

If we knew the answer to that question, then one should be able to fire up Google Sidewiki, which has been out for 9 months now, and go read copious comments on the pages of Daring Fireball.

As it stands, there are a few on the front page — all old — and none that I could find associated with article pages about the lack of comments.

If you need a reason why DF shouldn't have comments (other than Gruber's preference), take a look at the comments in this post on Dive Into Mark back in 2006:

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2006/06/02/when-the-bough-b...

There is a lot of trash in there as a result of a link from a longer piece on DF.

EDIT: language clarification.

This seems little more than a "nyah nyah!" at Gruber. An extension that tidily provides commenting to any blog without a comments system, however, would be interesting - though I've seen quite a few "back channel" site commenting extensions for Firefox that didn't really stick over the years..

I liked _whytheluckystiff's hoodwink.d as a secret club for comments all over the web. http://www.flickr.com/photos/robbyrussell/3838274563/

hoodwink.d was great. Something like that needs a larger community, though. Even at its most active, hoodwink.d didn't have a whole lot of chatter. Was always fun to use, though.

There is a hornswaggl.d (a new instance of hoodwinkd) in the wild, but I don't think there is very much activity there.

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