Roll your own?

Ever leave a comment on some website and wonder if anyone replied? Who has time to go back and re-read all the comment threads you’ve joined every day? Enter coComment. It is a comment tracking service. It tracks comments on integrated websites allowing users to keep an eye on articles they’ve commented on around the web. Sounds cool. I’d need to integrate it into my site, which leads me into the real purpose of this article.

There are all sorts of cool features I could add to this site. I want to add track-backs and ping-backs and integrations to other services. But I’d have to code it all myself and I only have so much time on my hands. Wordpress has been looking plenty attractive lately. Every time I see some cool new thing I want, it is already available as a Wordpress plugin.

But then I got to thinking. Nobody reads this site except maybe Megan. If I switched to Wordpress then I wouldn’t get to spend so much time writing my own extensions. Then I’d have to face the reality of the pointlessness of this site. But as long as I get to spend all sorts of time writing code I can ignore the fact that I never update and nobody ever reads.

Of course, if I integrate coComment, then that might clue me in a little more.