For the first few months of its existence, Arseblog did not have comments. I'm not really sure why. When I set it up it was because I was reading other blogs and thought the format was perfect, and each one of those had comments on every post. I think the main issue was because the other sites were set up using blogging software, like Blogger or Movable Type. Those came with a comment section built in. Initially, Arseblog was an exercise in web design for me, so I used to manually code a HTML page every day with the update and publish that. I remember getting an email at some point in 2002 to ask me if I could introduce comments on the blog posts, and after searching around for something I...
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