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venning
This throws an invalid SSL cert warning on Android Chrome.

NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID

reubano
I love the idea. I'm a fan of static sites but always dreaded having to rely on disqus and the like. Any chance you plan to open source this?
eduardoboucas
Thanks! Nothing against making it open source, no.
anilgulecha
But are you considering opening this up?
brbsix
If you don't prefer a third-party comments system for whatever, you can always host your own and insert it in your static site the same as you would with Disqus. I was considering doing this for a while and found React has a pretty good tutorial https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/tutorial.html
reubano
Pretty nifty! Do you decide to go down this route?
brbsix
Nope. Tempting as it was, I just ended up using Disqus. :)
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higon
Wanted to try out a bit. But approving a permission request for "read/write all the Github PRIVATE repository" and "read/WRITE all the my info." is alarmingly risky...

And this site itself is not even open-sourced? hmmm.

eduardoboucas
I admit that sucks a bit, but unfortunately the GitHub API doesn't offer per-repository scopes. I'll have to think of a better way, maybe Staticman could be a bot that you give access to on a specific repo.
metachris
If you want to make this project a success, consider to release it under an open source license!
DaGardner
Or just send pull requests, if a user doesn't want to grant push access (this can also be used as comment moderation)
metachris
Spam detection of some sort would be a necessity.
eduardoboucas
Agree! Definitely something I need to look into. Thanks.
reilly3000
This definitely looks malicious. Is the business model controlling everybody's repos??
eduardoboucas
Not really my plan, no. Sorry it looks malicious to you.
kristopolous
The definition of 'static' here I think may be a little different. It appears you are repurposing technologies to effectively be a database which aren't considered a database (at least in this context) in order to dynamically generate content in the users browser on the fly.

So templated dynamic html from a "database" is a fine architecture, but not what most people I think would call "static".

A "static" system would be more like Doxygen where the content is "compiled" into straight html/css pages

[dead] antocv
I like this.
jfim
So now we've come full circle to what Movable Type did over a decade ago (static generation based on contents stored in a database)?
reubano
Did those software support user content such as comments? Also, from my understanding, this project relies on flat files and not a db. So you could essentially eliminate the need for any http requests.
jfim
Movable Type supported user comments as well as trackbacks and pingbacks.
fenollp
Is it possible to OAuth on GitHub from the static site, have a nice form there that creates a pull request on this repo, then travis validates it?

Makes up for Wiki, comments, user login, …