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Noticed this as well. But on second thought: That's how humans talk - far from perfect. :)

What amount of funding did you/they get from the sources they listed?

Thanks for the detailed reply!

You reckon there's a market for a non-biased search engine? Just immediately came to mind... :)

You're speaking from own experiences, I guess?

Just tried googling it the other way around (if you meant that?) and it’s the same story. Both of the terms could be understood as „site:“ modifier, as the respective websites are term + .de

I think it’s not so much about the developer title but more about having a good ecosystem to work in.

Well the author is from an institution called the University of London, and Max Roser, who's stats he is critiquing, from an institution called Oxford...

Thanks for your feedback (again :)).

At the moment it pools the comments from all Reddit and HN submissions and thus all subreddits. It sorts them by relevance/upvotes. I'm using this "plugin": https://github.com/tgallant/embedd

I was thinking about having configureable options where the user can choose which services to show comments from. Was thinking about adding others as well - e.g. Twitter, Disqus. I can imagine not all techies want FB comments. :) But for now, I just wanted to release another version first.

Hey, so I "pivoted" my original idea of adding a comment section on any website ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15931518 ) to a comment aggregator that puts the relevant Reddit, HackerNews, and Facebook comments on the current website with the push of a button.

I made this switch due to the "marketplace/chicken-and-egg" problem my original idea had. It just wasn't very useful without a big amount of comments already on there. With the new direction, I picked up HN users dudzik's and brownbat's suggestions as in the linked thread above. :)

Hey, thought I replied to you. Apparently not, sorry. Moderation is only with FB right now. You can arrange your own moderation as well, put I'm not sure if I can scope it by domain or something or only for the entire app (i.e. extension), but it's probably not something I would go for. More here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/comments

Hey, I just clicked the first license as I didn't know what I was doing. I don't have the code public anywhere right now, but if you download the extension it's there to see, right? What license should I put it under? Anyone?

Yeah, definitely see the FB reporting as a threat as well. Coming from Germany, we just made them censor stuff by law, which is scary, I think.

No worries, didn't really take it critical. :)

Makes sense, but I feel FB has more spam measures in place then, say, Disqus.

> [Smacks forehead.] That definitely explains why it looked so much like FB comments. That's a neat approach. FB moderation handles spam and blatant trolls.

:)

I'm always hopeful, that users can take over this kind of moderation by up-/down-voting (only up-voting in the case of FB, I guess).

But yeah, the sparseness is a real problem. I'm trying to approach it by promoting to specific communities. But might be a tough road ahead.. :D (As many have pointed out here with approaches that have been tried before.)

yeah, might be. don't know exactly how they block it in those cases.

Will try to promote in these circles! thanks.

It has a comment count on the extension icon, which looks like this: https://imgur.com/a/XWrcN My first version was more intrusive and put an icon with comment count on every website, but I decided against this, as it needs "read all your website data"-permission for the extension, which can be off-putting. Now, the comment section only gets injected when the icon is clicked.

Re moderation: Yeah, it has the usual FB comments features, i.e. you can report to Facebook and I could also assign moderators I guess (which I don't really plan to do; don't know if that would work site-wide - I guess only for the whole extension, so any site). I'm thinking Facebook comments shouldn't get as out-of-hand as other systems, where it's easier to just create fake/anonymous/throw-away accounts...

But interesting project you run there. Kinda like Disqus? Also, whos legal responsibility are the comments? I guess yours, as you host them?