Bluesky Comments For Quarto

Installing

quarto add gadenbuie/quarto-bluesky-comments

This will install the extension under the _extensions subdirectory. If you’re using version control, you will want to check in this directory.

Using

Adding Bluesky-powered comments to your blog is a three-step process¹:

1. Publish the blog post and post about it on Bluesky.
2. Copy the link to the Bluesky post.
3. Add {{< bluesky-comments {post-url} >}} to your blog post and re-publish.

Using Bluesky for comments introduces a chicken-or-egg problem. You need one Bluesky post to watch for replies so that those replies can be shown in your blog post as comments. But first, you need to publish your blog so you can share it on Bluesky. Once you have the link to your skeet, come back to your blog and add the {{< bluesky-comments >}} shortcode.

The {{< bluesky-comments >}} shortcode doesn’t add any additional decoration (to make it as flexible as possible for your use case). Here’s a short snippet that adds the comments under a horizontal rule and in a “Comments” section:

---

## Comments {.unlisted}

{{< bluesky-comments https://bsky.app/profile/grrrck.xyz/post/3lbu5opiixc2j >}}

Footnotes

1. Yes, I know, that’s actually 5 steps. ↩