In this snippet I introduce a work-in-progress comment system I'm calling "Ask Me Anywhere".
Ask Me Anywhere lets you ask a question at any point in the post.<p>Give it a try. Simply click between two paragraphs or double click on a paragraph to open a comment box.<p>I put this together in Jan 2020. Since then, I've actually introduced a second comment system on my website: Discord!<p>You can give that one a try too. Scroll to the bottom of the post, and click Discussion. That will open a topic-specific Discord channel inline on the post. You can use it to discuss the snippets or any of my other snippets on the same topic.<p>I think it's surprising and cool that you can embed Discord discussions in a website like this. And as a bonus, you can leave comments anonymously / without logging it. If someone replies to your comment, it's updated immediately (like chat), rather than requiring a refresh (like a naive comments implementation.)<p>The "Ask Me Anywhere" comments are private, whereas the Discord comment section is public, as is more typical of web comments.<p>My goal with these comments threads is just to make it super easy to get discussions started. I suppose part of me prefers 1:1 discussions, but the private vs public distinction isn't so critical. Just looking to connect!