Staticman: user-generated content for static sites (opens in new tab)

I love the idea. I'm a fan of static sites but always dreaded having to rely on disqus and the like. Any chance you plan to open source this?

Wanted to try out a bit. But approving a permission request for "read/write all the Github PRIVATE repository" and "read/WRITE all the my info." is alarmingly risky...

And this site itself is not even open-sourced? hmmm.

So now we've come full circle to what Movable Type did over a decade ago (static generation based on contents stored in a database)?

This throws an invalid SSL cert warning on Android Chrome.

NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID

This definitely looks malicious. Is the business model controlling everybody's repos??

Spam detection of some sort would be a necessity.

The definition of 'static' here I think may be a little different. It appears you are repurposing technologies to effectively be a database which aren't considered a database (at least in this context) in order to dynamically generate content in the users browser on the fly.

So templated dynamic html from a "database" is a fine architecture, but not what most people I think would call "static".

A "static" system would be more like Doxygen where the content is "compiled" into straight html/css pages

Is it possible to OAuth on GitHub from the static site, have a nice form there that creates a pull request on this repo, then travis validates it?

Makes up for Wiki, comments, user login, …