So I did not read all messages on this thread just the first one and make it as a proof of concept.
Everyone interesred on this just add export PATH="/home/hate/bin:$PATH" alias ht='/home/hate/bin/ht' at the end of ~/.bashrc with your text editor
If you run ht --setup at your webroot dir like ~/public_html people will be able to read it at https://tilde.club/hate/.comments.txt (this is a live demo) or by going to your directory at /home/hate/public_html/.comments.txt (my ~/ is blocked)
Now you will be able to run ht "wonderful it is" on the folder project or any directory you want to and are allowed by the system
If you wish, you can edit the alias line to use another name instead like make-comment as he used as an example.
The ht --setup just deals with the permissions to .comments so people will be able to comment on any project/directory you want and nothing more.
Like chmod 701 to the folder and chmod 755 to the .comments file
This reminds me of twtxt that is just a text file publicly accessible for people to read. On this concept people can write at it as well so keep it in mind
On 17 July 2025 00:36:10 UTC, hate@tilde.club wrote:
There are a lot of ways to accomplish it but yeah just do it and people will use it if they want to.
Best regards, hate at tilde
On Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 05:41:49PM +0700, barnold@tilde.club wrote:
After admiring a club web page such as, say, http://tilde.club/~barnold/, you want to make a comment to say how wonderful it is.
Does such a thing already exist? If not, is there any show-stopper that makes it infeasible?
Thanks,
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