I think this has much more potential than a 3rd party site. Particularly after the novelty wears down.
I am interested to see Gruber's reaction. If we start seeing high quality comments and engagement from interesting people with something to say it'll be hard for Gruber to ignore.
He's probably asking himself right now "What Would Jobs Do?"
If we knew the answer to that question, then one should be able to fire up Google Sidewiki, which has been out for 9 months now, and go read copious comments on the pages of Daring Fireball.
As it stands, there are a few on the front page — all old — and none that I could find associated with article pages about the lack of comments.
This seems little more than a "nyah nyah!" at Gruber. An extension that tidily provides commenting to any blog without a comments system, however, would be interesting - though I've seen quite a few "back channel" site commenting extensions for Firefox that didn't really stick over the years..
hoodwink.d was great. Something like that needs a larger community, though. Even at its most active, hoodwink.d didn't have a whole lot of chatter. Was always fun to use, though.
There is a hornswaggl.d (a new instance of hoodwinkd) in the wild, but I don't think there is very much activity there.
If you need a reason why DF shouldn't have comments (other than Gruber's preference), take a look at the comments in this post on Dive Into Mark back in 2006:
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 26.5 ms ] threadI am interested to see Gruber's reaction. If we start seeing high quality comments and engagement from interesting people with something to say it'll be hard for Gruber to ignore.
He's probably asking himself right now "What Would Jobs Do?"
As it stands, there are a few on the front page — all old — and none that I could find associated with article pages about the lack of comments.
There is a hornswaggl.d (a new instance of hoodwinkd) in the wild, but I don't think there is very much activity there.
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2006/06/02/when-the-bough-b...
There is a lot of trash in there as a result of a link from a longer piece on DF.
EDIT: language clarification.