Ask HN: Using HN as a commenting engine?

5 pointsBerislavLopac3 comments

Has anyone though of making a service that utilizes Hacker News as a commenting engine for a blog? E.g. as a plugin for Wordpress or something. The idea would be that all comments are visible and accessible from both places (the blog and the HN) at the same time.

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If this involves auto-submitting every blog post to HN, then please don't.

This could involve auto-submitting every blog post to HN once it gets a comment which might be slightly better.

Best case would be to check if the article has been submitted to HN and if not default to the blog's own commenting system.

You could potentially use http://hubski.com as a blog, which is built on top of news.arc, and thus, has a similar commenting engine. It allows for richer content, like embedded videos and pictures. But no nice url...

A few people submit their blog posts to hubski. Since people don't share feeds, it's not frowned upon.

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