Commenting is now available on this blog!

I wrote my first blog system in 2003, or something like that. It had very rudimentary authoring and commenting functionality. It was written in Python and stored things in a PostgreSQL database, running on my friends' server helgo.net (which I think has been down for some time). It was called "blogdans", a pun on the Swedish word "logdans" ("barn dance"). Not the funniest of puns, but there you go.

Then other solutions came and went. For some time, I used some open-source system – I think it was Blosxom – hosted on that same server. Then I got bored with maintainence, moved to Blogspot and Wordpress and whatnot. Having a blog without a comment system seemed like madness during these years.

Then at some point, this blog timeline started on Github pages with Jekyll. Static-site generation seemed like the thing to do. Comments seemed unnecessary. All discussion happen on social media anyway.

But then later I felt sad about that state of affairs, you know, centralized web bad, where did real web go, bla bla. And thought it would be a nice hobby project to once again write a blogging system with comments. First I wrote a whole thing in Java, then I threw that away and now I have this thing using Next.js. It's called blogdans. It's very limited. A lot of it is vibe-coded. Try it out if you like.