Pretty Permalink and No Comment

June 4, 2011

I made two changes to this here website. I changed the permalink structure and removed the DISQUS comments platform.

What happened is this. Gruber linked to this article article about hashbangs which led me to this Cool URIs article by Tim Berners-Lee. That influenced me enough to change my permalink structure. The default permalink structure for Jekyll is /:year/:month/:day/:title.html. That means for this post, the URI would be http://kevrodg.net/2011/06/04/pretty-permalink-and-no-comment.html. After reading the Berners-Lee article, I decided I want the permalink structure to be :year/:month/:day/:title. As it turns out, Jekyll has this style built-in. It’s called pretty. Now, the URI for this post is http://kevrodg.net/2011/06/04/pretty-permalink-and-no-comment/. I guess this will help future-proof the permalink. Something else which would help is for me to stop messing around with the site’s structure.

As for the DISQUS comments, I decided that I don’t want any comments on my site. To date, there were no comments made on any of my posts, so it’s not like I had a bad experience with them. I have a few reasons why I don’t want comments, but the main one is that this is my site, and I intend it to be all mine. It will have my thoughts and opinions, and I want to control everything that appears here. I don’t hate sites that have comments. I actually enjoy reading an article and then seeing what other people have to add to it. I just don’t want it for my site. Anyway, that’s how I feel about it now.