@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.
I was able to reply to a couple blogs including your Protohistory post yesterday but today I find I can’t reply to anything (including the protohistory thread):
{"code":403,"error_msg":"You can't reply from this collection."}
Let me know how I can help get this sorted.
Thanks!
Ray
Thanks for mentioning this, Ray. It looks like this will happen when your primary Write.as blog is either Private or Password-protected – did you change that setting recently?
I suppose we might have to change how this works. Maybe if you’re commenting on a post publicly, even from a private blog, that individual post should be considered “public”…
Now that you mention it, ayup. I set it to private because it’s not live. Would making it password only do the trick?
Thanks!
Ray
P.S. Love the reply by email feature here, tis how I responded.