Using Discord for my website's comments section

Yesterday I added “Discussion” sections to all the snippets and posts on my website. I wrote a snippet about it as I was doing it. The project morphed considerably during the writing of that snippet. So, today, I’m putting together a shorter snippet that says what I actually did.

I created a Discord server for this website (I invite you to join the Discord here.) Then, I used widgetbot.io to embed the Discord server all throughout my website. Every snippet, every post, every tags page, and the overall snippets and overall tags pages all got Discussion sections.

On the Discord server, I made one channel per tag on my website. The Discussion section for a given page shows the channel for the first tag on that page. This makes it more likely that you’ll encounter a bit of conversation compared with their being a single comments section per page on the site, given the modest level of traffic we’re seeing here.

Go ahead and expand the Discussion section below. Say hi. There’s no need to log in; you can be completely anonymous if desired, or use your real name. Please just be respectful of the space and of others.

See you in the chat.

Discussion 💬

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