3 hours ago · Tech · hide · 1 comments

It's a rainy day today so I got my geek on. I can now add a comment box at the bottom of my posts. Comment sections aren't for everyone, but either are like-buttons, flickering GIFs, or pineapple. I personally just ebb and flow out of how or if I respond to posts, be it an email, reply post, mastodon comment, BBS response, or carving words into a pig. ahem. My commentblock method doubles down on my existing Supabase database that hosts my text-wall (guestbook). It just adds a row to the two-column database for each post ("id" being the timestamp of the post, and "content" which is the dynamic text field containing the comments). What you see is the same concept - a plain ol text box that you freely type into. No buttons, no nothing. Just type and it saves. About as loose as it can be. Luckily I have responsible adults reading my website who would never ever delete someone's comments, or worse, change their comments to make them sound like a dick. Right? RIGHT?! Just don't sign your…

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