Use GitHub issues as a comment system

[wschella]

We are a static site, we don't do comments. Recently my attention has been caught by some proposals to use GitHub issues as a comment system. With some simple JS we could make the required API calls, and have a lightweight commenting system.

See for example:

• https://github.com/hit9/petal
• https://github.com/imsun/gitment

[werthen]

I just found this https://staticman.net, and this seems quite perfect for us. I'm not a fan of cluttering our github issues with comments, they're nice as they are right now.

[wschella]

We could use a seperate repo tho, but I would prefer having the comments on the filesystem like in this system.

[werthen]

A disadvantage to the system would be that there's going to be a slight delay between the comment being submitted, and the site being updated (Building takes a few minutes after all).

And the idea with the other repo is also good, but I feel like having it in the git filesystem adds to the plain-text database we're constructing.