I have brought back the display of existing comments on this blog. When I switched away from WordPress to my own blog solution, I didn't build any display of comments on posts since I haven't had comments enabled in years and wanted to make the switch quickly. I also wasn't sure how I wanted to handle storing them, since my site data repo is public and will likely have an open license at some point. Storing quotes by others under my own license is probably fine, but I decided to mostly do summaries unless the exact quote seemed important. I did mostly do full quotes of my responses, since that's definitely my data. So I put their comments and my responses all in a single markdown file per post, in more of a prose format than normal comments are shown.
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