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zodiakzz
I wonder if there is something like this for the whole web? So you can comment on any web page you want.
stingraycharles
I have the feeling that without strict moderation and accountability, this would degrade in quality very, very fast.
humanfromearth
Maybe you're right. But there are down-votes in Disqus. Maybe it's going to be more like StackOverflow where most useful comments pop-up?
creshal
Or like reddit, where cheap jokes pop up.
simi_
Had a similar idea, was too lazy to implement it. Good luck and I hope this takes off.

https://github.com/andreis/ideas#github-comments

PS: There's also gitter.im, but it's not super useful for small repos.

humanfromearth
gitter.im is awesome! But it's more like a slack for github. I wanted a few comments on the project page to get an idea if I want to explore this project or not.

Is it going to accomplish this goal? No idea..

humanfromearth
For this to work, there would have to be a lot of people using this extension.

If anyone is curious:

Stats from GA so far: 1h first page on HN == 600 page views, 11 extension installs and 1 in total comment.

joshdance
If an extension needs network effects to be useful, you have to market it. As this seems like an experiment, I doubt it will hit critical mass.
tehnuty
Coul'd not agree more. Still think that git should have comments by default
aakilfernandes
I always wondered why Github didn't have comments by default, or at least as an opt-in. Thanks!