On 2025-06-28 20:48 ICT, jmcs wrote:
I'm not aware of anything exactly like this. It's not a bad idea as such, but it'd require some coordination among everyone involved.
Oh, that sounds more ambitious than what I had in mind. I was imagining just some script for my own public_html.
- all the users would need to have a comments.html page with the same format
- this hypothetical script would have to accept several params: user you are commenting to, maybe url you are commenting about (is it a comment
to the page, a blog post...?)
- html could make this a bit messy: this script would have to insert some text not at the end of a page, but before any </body> or whatnot
I think a simpler form might be doable, e.g. just a single comment page at ~barnold/comments.html. Taking care of permissions might not be easy. The commenter would write to a "well known" location in their home directory perhaps, e.g. ~jmcs/barnold-comment.txt. Incorporating that comment into my page would have to run as me I think, for safety, so perhaps triggered with a signal. Not sure. Seems like there's no cut-and-dried thing to do this.
Thanks for your thoughts.