After a quick little chat with Kev Quirk, in the comments on one of his posts, I’ve decided to enable comments on my site for the first time in many many years. I think it’s been 18 years!
I’ve set comments to auto-close 2 weeks after a post is published, and as such, only this post and my post from yesterday will have comments enabled for the moment.
When I merged all my old sites back into this one, I was struck by how many comments I’d had over time, and remembered how nice it was to be able to have that brief interaction about something specific, with some very nice people. I miss that.
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As a young person, I do not have the reference you (and Doctorow) do for a previous time when the internet was a better place. Instead, I see the current alienating internet and wish for something better. I quite like the idea of letting a post “go mute” after some time; I like isolating the interactions to a meaningful time for the author, when things are still fresh for you!
I hope porting all your older sites into this one wasn’t too much a pain :))
I am an internet traveler coming here from your source hut, and before that from that copyleft-voiding-bot-feeding website on which you sponsored Gleam (thank you!).
Thanks Ags!
Yeah, I suspect that after a couple of weeks most posts are sort of “done” in regards to conversation. There’s bound to be some posts by some authors that are evergreen and stir up new interesting conversations years down the line, but that’s unlikely to happen to one of mine!