A few years ago I implemented webmentions on this
site (by way of webmention.io and commentpara.de). I was never
satisfied with it as a commenting system and never fully committed to it.
I kept looking for either a better system or a webmention receiver I could
host myself and never settled on anything.
The webmention system has remained hooked up here and
still works. To my shame I forgot about it and stopped downloading new
messages. I remembered a couple days ago, ran my download script, and there
were mentions that'd been sitting in queue for years. So: sorry! Thank you
to the two people who commented, I appreciate it. Those comments have been
imported and I've left myself a note to remember to run the mention download
script when I update this website in the future.
I'd still like to host my own receiver & mention-sending comment form
(I'd be a lot happier without depending on third-party sites). Maybe it's
time to look at the problem again.