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Re:Use AWS Lambda to self-host the comments for your blog by tracker1 on Friday May 06, 2016 @02:32PM (#11645764)
Been working, slowly-but surely in terms of writing my own blog engine (static generator) and then publishing to gh-pages, but was considering using discus for comments... thinking of doing something similar as a docker contained service that I can throw up on my dokku server.

TBH, the thought of managing the attack surface of comments is kind of scary... Will definitely be referring back to this.

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Re:Use AWS Lambda to self-host the comments for your blog by jimpick on Friday May 06, 2016 @02:55PM (#11645942)
My approach was to just pump the entire comment through the "markdown-it" markdown processor, which promises to emit safe HTML. It's a popular project, so I'm banking on the fact that they go a good job of sanitizing in their pipeline.
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