jericson
First!
This is a test of the Discourse blog comment system. If this were a real blog comment, it would be substantially more insightful.
First!
This is a test of the Discourse blog comment system. If this were a real blog comment, it would be substantially more insightful.
Mine however is full of insight. Insight, insight, insight. See that’s four right there!
This is genius. 
Srsly! Two observations: (1) For some reason Discourse thinks there’s three replies, but I see only two (as I make this one the third). Curious? Or is a deleted comment still triggering in the count? (2) It took me a moment to see (work out) how the embedded Discourse element differentiates posts-for-comments, but perhaps only because I’m a bit slow. Clearly you have a different “forum thread” for each “blog post”. Doh. 
Did I mention that this is genius?
[Edit: typo]
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The way this works is anytime someone visits a post that has comments turned on, the JavaScript checks to see if a post exists on Discourse and creates one if not. But since these posts are merely placeholders for replies/comments, they are hidden when created. As soon as someone posts a reply, the thread is automatically unhidden:
It’s a clever feature and it’s handy that there’s an indication of what happened. But that notice counts as a reply! I think it’s a bug because it’s a notice that’s stored in a post rather than a real reply. I’ve been looking at maybe submitting a PR to Discourse to fix that.
By the way, that problem also shows up when you look at the category listing:
But it’s way more obvious when you look at the bottom of the post and can count how many actual replies there are compared to the number.
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Turns out deleting the extra “reply” solves the problem. (See Rewriting a Git repository: Unlimited growth (in a bad way)) But it sure is annoying that it’s not automatic. 
It looks like footnotes aren’t working in the embedded posts.[1] The post here is embedded by parsing the HTML of the blog post itself. It looks like I’d be better off configuring Discourse to use my RSS feed.
But I just turned them on for comments! ↩︎
I’ve gotten two PMs about this post:
Just so everyone knows, I’m not lending anyone, not even a student, my credit card to sign up for Oracle Cloud. Sorry! (Not that these “students” will read this.)