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👤 f2d24b3 wrote:

Awesome! I would love to use this on my own little blog. Let me know when it goes open source! Will I get an email when someone replies to my comment?

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✨ spence wrote:

So happy to hear you like it. I will definitely let you know when it’s open source (getting very close now).

Will I get an email when someone replies to my comment?

Good question! For now no, because I don’t think that what people want. However, if you go to your comment[#78b770a4](https://spenc.es/comment/78b770a4>](https://spenc.es/comment/78b770a4), you will see an RSS link.

Every comment has an atom feed so people can opt-in to get notifications to when people respond to a comment. There’s also a page of all comments, and you can even choose an alias.

But I’m grateful for your interest. Feel free to leave feedback anywhere on this site or just contact me.

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👤 f1e80f8 wrote:

of course, I gotta see how it works

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✨ spence wrote:

Thanks for stopping by! Please share any feedback. Especially stuff that’s critical. It’s Christmas right now so I’m it doing anything, but soon I’ll be iterating on all the feedback.

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👤 8e5ada9 wrote:

Di sicuro successo, ottima idea con grande potenzialità di sviluppo!!!! E perdi più il Creatore è estremamente disponibile a critiche e commenti che la Possano far crescere

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👤 861dcaf wrote:

Hi

I think this is very neat. Would be really nice to see this as open source. I think it would be especially useful for small sites that have a static website and do not wish to install some large, complicated, database backed, web based comment system. Email is still such a useful medium for communication and this would be another neat application that builds upon the advantages and maturity of email.

Mike

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✨ spence wrote:

Hi Mike! Thanks for your kind words.

I totally agree with email. It’s been totally undervalued as an interface.

I think maybe part of the reason why is that it’s historically (and still is) kind of “difficult”. But, once you get it set up and working it’s so nice. I’ve really been enjoying seeing people play with this, and just knowing that there’s a way interact with people on my website makes me feel so much more excited about writing content for my website (which I’m really bad about haha).

-Spence

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👤 6c715f2 wrote:

we'll start seeing richer, deeper conversations take place

Although that's a wonderful ideal, unfortunately all I have to say atm is: LGTM!

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👤 162e9e8 wrote:

Well done! You're right, my email client provides a much better writing UX than commenting in those tiny comment boxes. Especially for longer, more thoughtful comments. Maybe using this people will feel less nervous to compose longer more thoughtful conversations on the Internet and we'll start seeing richer, deeper conversations take place through the online ecosystem!

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