Comment by f311a
16 hours ago
How it works:
* CF worker on a subdomain that handles POST requests. Basically, a JS function that handles incoming requests.
* It stores comments in CF KV and sends me a copy to telegram
* All I need to do is copy it to Markdown (can be automated, but I manually approve the comments in case of spam)
* In Markdown, I'm using frontmatter to store arbitrary JSON data
* To avoid automated spam, I have a few tricks: do not expose the submit URL in HTML (insert it via JS) and calculate a simple checksum so that automated software that does not execute JS won't be able to post. Such software usually targets Wordpress blogs by scraping them from Google. I get zero spam from it.
Everything, including hosting and workers, costs me zero.
Example: https://rushter.com/blog/zsh-shell/
>Everything, including hosting and workers, costs me zero.
Your setup sounds cool. Do you host it on a home lab or something?
Just a free plan on Cloudflare (CF in the comment above also means CloudFlare). Zero maintenance.
I push to Github and CF deploys static pages to CDN.
Ah awesome thanks. I've been using Netlify to do the same. CF scares me lol.
Interesting, thanks!