@matt, I am curious if the email response is live yet? We tried testing it out in the family and I don’t think it worked (yet). DO you have an update? Thank you!
Not yet – we should have the option for email responses available to everyone this month!
Beyond this, we have a couple large migration projects on our plate that have taken priority at the moment, so unfortunately, major development on Remark.as will be delayed until those are finished. But one of those projects should be complete this month, and we’ll get to work on Remark.as as soon as we’re freed up a bit.
I’ll keep everyone updated as we nail down a release date.
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@matt , will the “weekend” project version of Remark.as be in queue anytime soon? I would love to have it available and really like it’s simplicity. cf: I was aiming to have made some progress on Remark.as by this point in 2021, but... — Micro Matt
I’d say… possibly 
I have started hacking on it in my free time, and I would like to get something out there for everyone to start playing with, since I know a number of people want this. But I can’t make any promises on a timeline just yet.
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@matt That would be lovely … I look forward to seeing it. Thank you. Enjoy your studio! Grin.
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Yesterday we released the very first bit of Remark.as functionality! Remark.as: Introducing Private Letters
Among others waiting for this feature, @christinerenner, this should fit your use case perfectly!
Please… no… Social share links are a necessity for ad tech-powered publications but they’re ugly and useless? (imo) Please give remark.as a try. I did yesterday (and got a response this morning!) and it felt stupidly natural.
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@matt Have you seen Cactus Comments?
I realise I’m a bit late to the game, but this should fit the bill with private, portable comments section - excellent piece of libre software.
This looks awesome. And from what I can see, free? Outside of Commento, which costs $100/year, the best I’ve seen is Utterances (or Giscus), both of which rely on GitHub — something I would like to stray away from that, given not everyone uses it.
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Okay, so first, disclaimer: I haven’t actually tried implementing it myself - I just know the folks that created it, and seen it implemented on a couple of pages. Yes it’s free, they are generously offering their cactus.chat server as host for early adopters, I don’t think they have secured long term funding for that server though - so if you have the capacity to self-host, that’s probably what you wanna go for in the long term. But yeah, from the Quick Start guide it seems very easy. I’d say give it a try?
Just wanted to update everyone – a very early, very experimental Remark.as has launched today!
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Hey, @matt, there’s a couple people that are trying to access the “Discuss…” link in my signature that are not Pro users, and they are getting a 404 page - any chance it could be a page letting people know what is happening (I simply told them (via e-mail) that they must be Pro users for the time being).
Thanx 
How do I change which of my blogs is the primary one?
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here’s a screenshot of what people are getting (myself included when I click on my own “Discuss…” link -
I checked out a few discuss links and the only ones working have been the ones from blogs with a custom URL. Is this feature not yet working with write.as or writeas.com domains?
Same request. Also: looks like because my primary (first?) blog was set to private I could not post comments.
What a huge milestone, I can imagine how hard you’ve been working behind-the-scenes on this, Matt, and I wanted to say congratulations. I’m hoping that some day (soon? 
) both Write.As and non-Write.As readers of my blog are able to make comments too. Thanks again for your continued work and passion.
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Thanks for letting me know! @tobenschmidt is right – it seems the links are only working for custom domains (e.g. in @tmo’s URL, the write.as/ part shouldn’t be included). I’ll get a fix out shortly.
As for the primary blog issue, I’ll see if I can put something together that lets you comment as a non-primary profile. This was going to come eventually, but I haven’t thought it all the way through yet. If I can’t put something together quickly, it might just be better to hold off on using Remark.as for now, unfortunately.
Also, I’ll be fixing the Cafe loading issues – I see it’s extremely slow right now.
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Cheers, Matt. Thanks for addressing the URL 404 issue swiftly.
I thought the Cafe loading issue was just on my end. Hopefully, both get sorted soon.