I think I have enabled Disqus comments for this blog with my recent commit. We will see in this very post.

This has actually been a helpful exercise for me to learn more about the free-form usability of Jekyll. Most people implement these as a block in the _includes folder. I said “meh, no” and I have them in the post.html layout. So far, I’m turning the comments setting to true on a page-by-page basis. But this wasn’t strictly necessary either. I could have a layout that everything inherited from and add the comment field there.

Well, that brings up another good question, how is Disqus going to know what pages should be granted a comment box? Maybe they will create a new comment thread whenever it gets any traffic that seems to indicate the user came via that webpage. That system seems extremely prone to abuse. But I don’t know, maybe I haven’t understood it yet? We’ll see after this post.

First attempt: did not work. Will try a little hacking. Here are some different variable attempts, we will see if any contain the comments variable.

  • post.comments:
  • page.comments: true
  • comments: