{"items": [{"author": "Pattern", "source_link": "https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Y3apSc55ZE9wc8Df8#Fna2ZzzGhG9nYFXwk", "anchor": "lw-Fna2ZzzGhG9nYFXwk", "service": "lw", "text": " 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.", "timestamp": 1575581009}, {"author": "gbear605", "source_link": "https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Y3apSc55ZE9wc8Df8#PzCfh7FRsmhdskARt", "anchor": "lw-PzCfh7FRsmhdskARt", "service": "lw", "text": "→ 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.", "timestamp": 1575594063}, {"author": "jkaufman", "source_link": "https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Y3apSc55ZE9wc8Df8#Gg9mCv3YieWPRLTfu", "anchor": "lw-Gg9mCv3YieWPRLTfu", "service": "lw", "text": "→ → \nI'm imagining you'd create an LW account if you didn't have one.\n\n

1 & 2. Yes, it's just two views into the same comment thread.\n

3 & 4. These are UI questions, but I would think having them work the same as on LW would make sense.\n\nYes 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.\n\n", "timestamp": 1575597618}, {"author": "Todd", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100125439495082?comment_id=10100125500687452", "anchor": "fb-10100125500687452", "service": "fb", "text": "Why not outsource to e.g. Disqus, though?", "timestamp": "1575596456"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100125439495082?comment_id=10100125500687452&reply_comment_id=10100125502788242", "anchor": "fb-10100125500687452_10100125502788242", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Aside from Disqus being too slow and not being an organization I'd trust not to lose the comments, the main problem with Disqus is that it doesn't add very much over an independent blog running its own comments. The big thing that merging my comment section with FB and LW gets me is that it's easy for people who follow discussions in general in one of those two places to participate.", "timestamp": "1575597352"}, {"author": "Todd", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100125439495082?comment_id=10100125500687452&reply_comment_id=10100125505772262", "anchor": "fb-10100125500687452_10100125505772262", "service": "fb", "text": "→ I said e.g. Discus because I'm not asking why not that platform in particular, but why not some third-party platform, even a hypothetical one. I guess I don't see why LW itself should have to do any work here, unless it's because the right service hasn't been built yet.", "timestamp": "1575598642"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100125439495082?comment_id=10100125500687452&reply_comment_id=10100125506326152", "anchor": "fb-10100125500687452_10100125506326152", "service": "fb", "text": "→ The difference is that LW is already hosting comment sections for these blogs, the comments are just only visible on LW itself.", "timestamp": "1575598810"}, {"author": "bendini", "source_link": "https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Y3apSc55ZE9wc8Df8#EM4NdskZ9hwFQj3a3", "anchor": "lw-EM4NdskZ9hwFQj3a3", "service": "lw", "text": "I strongly support this suggestion.", "timestamp": 1575607415}, {"author": "KatjaGrace", "source_link": "https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Y3apSc55ZE9wc8Df8#dioqHLx6s88am69FN", "anchor": "lw-dioqHLx6s88am69FN", "service": "lw", "text": "This sounds great to me, and I think I would be likely to sign up for it if I could, but I haven't thought about it for more than a few minutes, am particularly unsure about the implications for culture, and am maybe too enthusiastic in general for things being 'well organized'.", "timestamp": 1575792777}, {"author": "agai", "source_link": "https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Y3apSc55ZE9wc8Df8#QMfBQXc3XqP2nzAHA", "anchor": "lw-QMfBQXc3XqP2nzAHA", "service": "lw", "text": "→ \n

am maybe too enthusiastic in general for things being 'well organized'.\n\n

I don't think so. :)\n", "timestamp": 1578814627}, {"author": "eigen", "source_link": "https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Y3apSc55ZE9wc8Df8#dwavJSJwF5mJaLBDM", "anchor": "lw-dwavJSJwF5mJaLBDM", "service": "lw", "text": "This is a great idea!

I'm mostly saddened by the comments I miss on Scott Alexander's blog posts given that the Wordpress comment system is pretty simple IMO (contrasted with LW, there are ~300 comments on each post of The Codex on Scott's blog while the same posts here only have a few comments, maybe ~3.)", "timestamp": 1575819815}]}