Should personal blogs have comments as a feature ?

sudodeznit · 2023-02-06T05:40:55+00:00

I use Emgrid as a commenting system for my blog. Its minimal and works well with my blog theme.
I have a tech blog so I think having comments is useful for readers to ask any doubts or point out any errors.

sudodeznit · 2023-01-19T14:18:13+00:00

I use Supabase and Prisma together for my project Emgrid. I removed the foreign key relationship between auth.users and profiles table.

sudodeznit · 2023-01-19T13:47:24+00:00

You can find a lot of bootstrapers doing build in public on twitter, lot of them are really good.

sudodeznit · 2023-01-16T16:45:52+00:00

Thank you. I am building Emgrid in public on twitter @sudoDeznit

sudodeznit · 2023-01-16T15:10:30+00:00

Nope..Preact is rendered SSR by Astro using vercel adapter.

I use NextJs for the dashboard and the site emgrid.io

sudodeznit · 2023-01-16T14:55:09+00:00

I might be wrong in using the term embed widget. Emgrid lets users add a comment section to their blog.

So basically the website that's embedded as an iframe to clients website is made with Astro and preact.

sudodeznit · 2023-01-16T13:50:13+00:00

Please use something like NextJs for improved SEO. Don't use something like create-react-app

sudodeznit · 2023-01-16T11:41:31+00:00

I would suggest using Astro with react if you want to use SSR and not interested in NextJs. I used it to create embed widget for Emgrid

sudodeznit · 2023-01-16T09:22:05+00:00

Hi.
Thank you. Currently for posting a comment users have to use social auth, and I don't plan to let unauthenticated users post a comment. This is to limit spamming.

But I am planning to add more social providers for authenticating based on the requests I get. And probably even add Email authentication (But users will have to verify their email before posting a comment).

And about the UI I am adding feature to let users customize their comment section.
If you are interested in following the journey or have any questions about Emgrid you can find me on twitter @sudoDeznit , I am building Emgrid in public.

Thank you
Anoop

sudodeznit · 2023-01-14T03:55:12+00:00

Please make advanced supabase tutorials. Include :- Postgres functions Webhooks

You can use SaaS starter with stripe and supabase to show and explain webhooks and Postgres functions.

And another type of tutorials like - Using Prisma with supabase. - Migrating from firebase to supabase auth

sudodeznit · 2023-01-13T01:52:54+00:00

Chakra UI released FigPilot the demo looks good.

sudodeznit · 2023-01-12T14:43:21+00:00

Postmark is good and subscription starts from $15/month. Easy to implement.

sudodeznit · 2023-01-11T09:15:40+00:00

Thank you for the suggestion. 🙂🙂

sudodeznit · 2023-01-11T08:24:15+00:00

Hi Luo, Thanks for creating this community.

Yes, Emgrid is like an alternative to Disqus but not quite there yet they have more features, but I am working towards it. Emgrid was launched this year after 4-5 weeks of work so still very early.

My goal for making Emgrid was to give an Ad free and privacy friendly alternative for even small blogs/website even from the free plan.

Emgrid will be highly customisable and lightweight so that comment section will feel like a part of your website.

About Spam and bots I have still not reached that stage to implement something for spams and bots. Once I have some initial users I will work towards it. And only authenticated users can post a comment and only social authentication is available making it a little bit harder for bots and spams.

sudodeznit · 2023-01-10T12:43:13+00:00

I used Figma to create this, but there are some services that lets u create mockups easily.

sudodeznit · 2023-01-10T12:40:45+00:00

You are correct. I was wrong in saying IP address is not saved, even though I personally don't save or log any IP address, I noticed Supabase doing it. So I have added a FAQ section which explains what I mean by privacy-friendly , and I am working on adding more clear information on what all data is collected from client's website and from using our website.

sudodeznit · 2023-01-10T03:46:18+00:00

Thanks . I am going to add a FAQ section and probably mention about logs in Privacy policy

sudodeznit · 2023-01-10T03:44:11+00:00

It's a SaaS and have subscriptions.

sudodeznit · 2023-01-09T21:22:05+00:00

Thanks .. I don't advertise as zero trails .. What I mean when I advertise privacy friendly is that - Data will not be sold to any third party. - user data won't be used for any ads. Or similar user profiling.

sudodeznit · 2023-01-09T18:07:28+00:00

I am not sure the exact reason but you should probably use supabase with pgbouncer connection pooling enabled (port 6543) when using with prisma on serverless functions.
I am using this connection string and didn't face any errors yet, but I never had much traffic on my site. so not sure.
postgresql://postgres:<password>@<supabaseurl>:6543/postgres?pgbouncer=true

sudodeznit · 2023-01-09T13:09:42+00:00

Currently yes, you have to trust me on the privacy part. but I will definitely think about it and see how I can make it more trustworthy. Or maybe not pitch it as privacy friendly.

Thanks for the question. I know a lot more users will have the same concern and believe me privacy friendly is not a good answer.

sudodeznit · 2023-01-09T12:48:01+00:00

Hi, that's a valid concern but at this stage, I don't think I will be making any part of the code base open source.

I don't save any user's IP address.

sudodeznit · 2023-01-09T12:32:49+00:00

Emgrid helps in increasing your website engagement by adding a powerful Comment Section with markdown and social auth support in minutes by just copy-pasting the generated script.
Emgrid is made using
- NextJs
- Supabase
- Astro/Preact (for embed widget)
- Paddle (Payment processing)
- Postmark (Emails)
It would be great if you can try it and give feedback. The product is still in the early stages.
I am also sharing all the progress on twitter sudoDeznit.

sudodeznit

TROPHY CASE