i keep debating whether or not to add comments to this blog!!
problem is that slimeblogger, and my presence on tilde.town generally,
was focused on minimalism and simplicity. that's why there's no
categories, no tags and no pagination. i wanted my blog to be able to
exist as a single page. it's the philosophy of a lot of members of the
town, and one i'm keen to stick to! i decided long ago that comments
were simply outside the scope of this blog & slimeblogger.
BUT! this place is now my eggbug-away-from-eggbug; this is where i'm
posting more now that cohost is gone and its community has moved to RSS
feeds and blogs. and one thing cohost taught me to love is the comments
section. i have left comments on many blog posts that appear in my RSS
reader's feed, and sometimes i want to enable that level of interaction
to my blog as well. honestly, sometimes it's just nice to know people
have read your writings, your thoughts put to paper, and acknowledge
that you exist LOL
idk. it's more work, i'd need to find a suitable comment platform, and i
can't decide if it works with the design principles i have imposed upon
myself and my own blog. not adding them for now, but watch this space...?
maybe i'll add a means to comment on blog posts that is SEPARATE from my
blog itself - comments and comment threads could exist, but not clutter
the blog and exist on their own Comment Site. another design principle i
am extremely keen to stick to is that this blog will function with NO
javascript (pop open your browser dev tools - there's no javascript here
at all!). it seems like any means of delivering comments embedded into
the page WILL require javascript, especially when i can't do any
server-side scripting here on the town (and nor would i want to use
their resources like that!)
actually i suppose i could use iframes but fuck that those are ugly and
annoying LOL
what do you think, reader? oh wait shit you can't comment uhhhhhhhhh
send an email to slimeblog@slimelia.uk for now i guess. ive set that up
as a dedicated mailbox for this blog only (actually its just a forwarder
but whatever). maybe i should just do that instead of commenting: bring
back email. love an email, me