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Client-side comments with Mastodon on a static Hugo website

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Client-side comments with Mastodon on a static Hugo website

Ever since I moved this blog to Hugo from Serendipity, I missing the comment option a bit. This is something which a static blogging engine does not offer out of the box. And I did not migrate all the comments from my old blog to my new blog.
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in reply to Andreas Scherbaum

Seirdy
Seirdy
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I’m curious as to what the rationale for JS-based client-side comments are over just including them in HTML during build-time with data templates. I’ve been doing that on my site for years.
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in reply to Seirdy

Andreas Scherbaum
Andreas Scherbaum
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@Seirdy Uh, because the site will then only include the comments which have been posted before the site was built. Everything after that is not included.

I don't know how often your website is rebuilt, mine usually only 2-3 times a week.

@Seirdy
in reply to Andreas Scherbaum

Seirdy
Seirdy
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Ah, that makes sense. I trigger a rebuild every time I approve new comments.
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