Show HN: MyTwoCents – browser extension to put a comment section on any website

I love the idea of disaggregating content production from moderation, they are very different competencies, and these annotate everything approaches are a great way to follow that philosophy. Google Sidewiki was one of my favorite shut down projects, this one looks even cleaner.<p>I think moderation and community are hard to tack on, though those might be necessary to make these projects as popular and usable as social networks, to get the network effects rolling. Without them this risks becoming either &quot;4chan everywhere,&quot; or &quot;your one comment no one ever reads everywhere.&quot;<p>Genius had an annotate everywhere feature that ran into the moderation issue: observer.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;genius-web-annotator-emma-dawson-alana-massey<p>Probably out of scope for you, just think those are interesting untackled problems in this space.

I applaud anyone who gets things finished and released. &quot;chat on any website&quot; extensions seem to pop up with some regularity though and it might be instructive review the others. One I found with a quick google search which has some useful comments:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=4628577" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=4628577</a>

How does this relate to existing tools like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.hypothes.is&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.hypothes.is&#x2F;</a> or even W3C recommendations <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.w3.org&#x2F;TR&#x2F;2017&#x2F;REC-annotation-protocol-20170223&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.w3.org&#x2F;TR&#x2F;2017&#x2F;REC-annotation-protocol-20170223&#x2F;</a> ?

Great idea and great execution! You are right with FB comments for now. I&#x27;m super excited about what you created and I&#x27;m thinking of some ways to collaborate. will keep you posted here (if you want or not:) )

Part of the reason to have comments as part of your site is for SEO and capturing the long tail from user generated content.<p>Basically rank higher on keywords searchers actually use by letting them use their own words on your site.<p>Disclaimer: I run Remarkbox (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.remarkbox.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.remarkbox.com</a>)

Didn&#x27;t firefox attempt this a few years back? They had a chat feature that worked on each website and only between firefox users.<p>I can&#x27;t find it on google now but I&#x27;m sure this happened.

I have a suggestion for a niche you might find explotable: cryptocurrency exchange trollboxes. Maybe a different version that automatically (or only) works for them. Poloniex removed theirs when users complained about the service - others like bittrex or coinbase don&#x27;t have them. They&#x27;re things where the sites don&#x27;t want them (or are too lazy to) but users do use it for support&#x2F;community too.

This is really nice trahn.. Please get some funding to get the word out before Disqus or any other comments app having a user base replicates the same. It isn&#x27;t technically hard, but the business case is viable and people will want to invest in the minds that envisioned it and made this possible (you guys :) ) and see where it can go.

This looks interesting. How do I know if someone else has left comments at a website &#x2F; page I&#x27;m visiting? I probably wouldn&#x27;t want to open the comments sidebar on each page, to find out. And I wouldn&#x27;t notice if there&#x27;s some small notification icon. The only things I&#x27;d react to, is blinkng light, and sound playing &quot;There are comments&quot;. But is that too intrusive? To me, a voice saying &quot;There are comments&quot; would be fine.<p>Who is going to moderate comments? I&#x27;m afraid people who say evil angry things to other will dominate a discussion system like this, as is usually the case, when there is no strict moderation, right. Well maybe as long as you use Facebook Comments, it has moderation features already?

Nice. I remember using something like this in the 90s. It was much less elegant. It got a lot of funding and disappeared during the dot com bust. It was written up in the Industry Standard, a trove of good ideas worth re-visiting in that magazine.

Where is the code?

I like the Hacker News Sidebar browser extension for this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;hacker-news-sidebar&#x2F;ngljhffenbmdjobakjplnlbfkeabbpma" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;hacker-news-sideba...</a><p>I guess there must be something similar to display Reddit comments in a sidebar.

And how does this relate to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;epiverse.co&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;epiverse.co&#x2F;</a>, another existing tool?

What were the OSS versions of commenting plugins - that don&#x27;t need a browser extension. Mobile browsers are not going to be able to use this.<p>I run some sites that are used in China, where FBcomments&#x2F;disqus are blocked. As a site <i>owner</i> I&#x27;m also responsible for policing my comments section. But a separately hosted solution could be an interesting way around that.

I know many of you won&#x27;t like that it uses Facebook comments but i chose it (for now) for a couple of reasons: 1) mainstream appeal 2) ease of integration 3) FB already has comments on some links. If people use the extension I&#x27;m thinking of Disqus as an alternative or - more longterm - a P2P solution.

Honestly, i was going to build this. But, I kept thinking that there wasn&#x27;t that strong of a need for it. Also, in order for someone to see comments on something, someone else would have seen the site first and commented there, so it kinda depends on network effects.

I quite like this idea as it removes the need to include a comment system yourself. No need to include intrusive javascript or make the design visually littered. Can an author moderate his articles?