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Django Comments: New, Improved And Working Again
I finally got my blog comments working again. I, like many other bloggers, inevitably had my site fall victim to comment spam. Trying to do a quick fix for this soon put me in a spiral of versioning issues so I simply chose to disable comments until I had time to figure it all out.
A major part of my problem was due to Django (the platform I am using) versioning issues. This is no fault of the Django team--I had simply been merrily running along on a version which was getting progressively out of date and also had accumulated a number of customizations along the way. Getting up to date was not a casual exercise.
Also, the Django comment system had itself changed along the way. For anyone using Django who may be in a similar situation, I recommend seriously looking at these links:
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The good news is that the core Django comments framework now includes built-in spam protection and other improvements so I can avoid the customizations that were causing problems before. Also, not having comment capability was killing my (easily killed) blogging enthusiasm, so this should improve my blogging productivity. rk