When I do, however, I usually don’t end up seeing replies or other comments, and managing my subscriptions is a pain.
Yes. A solution to this would be amazing. (It would be amusing if people payed for a tool that handled this for blogs that are free to read.)
I’m wondering whether it might make sense for LW to run shared commenting infrastructure for independent blogs that are cross posted to LW. This could look like:
Comments on LW show up on the external blog.
People can comment on the LW post via the external blog.
This has some similarities to Disqus, but instead of “outsource your comments” it’s “join your comment section with the LW comment section”.
Potential issues:
0) Are users automatically created for each commenter?
1) If it’s deleted on LW, should it still show up on the blog? (Or a notification of LW deletion?)
2) If it’s deleted on the blog, should it still show up on LW?
3) On LW comments can be minimized*. This is good because there can be a lot of comments. (A comment’s section without minimization seems fine if there’s lower traffic.)
4) Trolls on either side (related to 0, 1 and 2). On LW things are minimized by default when they get a score of −4, stop showing up on the front page/recent comments at a score of 0.
*Though not posts or questions. Or shortform posts when viewed anywhere other than in the context of their shortform.
Another problem: If I have I post on an outside blog and have an account on LessWrong, is the crosspost posted by my account? If it does, then it creates all sort of security issues. If it doesn’t, then it’ll get confusing.
I’m imagining you’d create an LW account if you didn’t have one.
1 & 2. Yes, it’s just two views into the same comment thread.
3 & 4. These are UI questions, but I would think having them work the same as on LW would make sense.
Yes the comment is posted by your LW account. This would be implemented by having the comment composition box be in a cross-domain iframe hosted on lesswrong.com. The independent blog can’t impersonate you.
Yes. A solution to this would be amazing. (It would be amusing if people payed for a tool that handled this for blogs that are free to read.)
Potential issues:
0) Are users automatically created for each commenter?
1) If it’s deleted on LW, should it still show up on the blog? (Or a notification of LW deletion?)
2) If it’s deleted on the blog, should it still show up on LW?
3) On LW comments can be minimized*. This is good because there can be a lot of comments. (A comment’s section without minimization seems fine if there’s lower traffic.)
4) Trolls on either side (related to 0, 1 and 2). On LW things are minimized by default when they get a score of −4, stop showing up on the front page/recent comments at a score of 0.
*Though not posts or questions. Or shortform posts when viewed anywhere other than in the context of their shortform.
Another problem: If I have I post on an outside blog and have an account on LessWrong, is the crosspost posted by my account? If it does, then it creates all sort of security issues. If it doesn’t, then it’ll get confusing.
I’m imagining you’d create an LW account if you didn’t have one.
1 & 2. Yes, it’s just two views into the same comment thread.
3 & 4. These are UI questions, but I would think having them work the same as on LW would make sense.
Yes the comment is posted by your LW account. This would be implemented by having the comment composition box be in a cross-domain iframe hosted on lesswrong.com. The independent blog can’t impersonate you.