And some basic interactivity

Added some basic commenting functionality. Apparently a <form> element, HTTP and a POST method still work.

I reused and remixed some code from one of my oldest and longest running websites: I don't play badminton at Badminton Club Almere anymore, but I'm still hosting and maintaining their website, launched in 2005. Until some other volunteer steps up and takes over.

About 17.000 comments were posted throughout the years. It was one of the most (inter)active badminton club websites in The Netherlands. A while ago the current board asked me to remove the commenting feature. I guess people think everyone's on Instagram these days, and don't use websites anymore. Or everyone's busy talking to chat bots in echo chambers, I don't know. Luckily they allowed me to at least keep all the current comments publicly available.

Fronteers is a different story. In 2007 I built their website, including the blog. And because I had some code laying around, of course we had comments there as well. Two years ago the website relaunched. Different volunteers took over. It happens. Unfortunately over 2.000 comments—and the feature—got lost in that migration.

At FDND we're teaching students in Semester 2 to work with server-side rendering (I will write about what I think of this term some other day). After some of the basics about HTML, CSS and JS in Semester 1, we're introducing them to HTTP, forms and designing and developing with dynamic data. And Progressive Enhancement, browsers, User Experience, performance. Basically: web stuff. It's really cool to see students get enthusiastic about making something interactive, like a comment form.

I miss simple comment forms on websites.