In my new year’s “resolution” I have “resolved” to add comments to this site via bluesky. That was definitely fun but only to an extent; next time I shall pledge to use unreal engine 5 for comments or something.

UPDATE: That was a bad idea. While bluesky looks nice as a replacement to xwitter, without direct posting box and styling which I can’t do it doesn’t look good at all as a comment engine.

Anyway, there seems to be no “official” social options for bluesky in any of the themes I tried (but I tried only a few), but there’s a ton of specific recipes on the internet, such as:

• This seems to have the most features, but it infects your computer with node_modules, and we all know it doesn’t end well for human civilization.
• This just embeds the entire bsky post in your page. If I do that, it’ll be the most good looking part of the website, and I can’t allow that. People who elected to read this must suffer.
• This looks simple enough, I’m going to try it here now.
  • This doesn’t add an edit box, only “Reply to this post on Bluesky to leave a comment”.
  • It looks like shit.
• This is supposedly a version of the first option without node_modules. It also looks like shit and that is what I ended up using for the whole day! Then got rid of it.

It appears that everything except embedding the entire post looks like shit. And all of this is read-only - that is, there’s no “enter comment here” box. If you want to leave a comment, go to bsky.app and post there.

And after fiddling with it for a day I’ve decided that UX is terrible. We’ll get back to it again in a few months.