I created this site 8 months ago. I put a comment form at the bottom of articles on this site. To keep the design clean, I put it behind a disclosure triangle. The text says “Post a comment” and it’s underlined to show it’s clickable.

I didn’t get any comments. I confirmed it was working. I added a single click “cool story” button to send a comment saying “cool story”. You wouldn’t have to even type anything. I was being ironic. No one clicked the “cool story button”.

I took out the disclosure triangle, so people would see the comment form. I changed the email field to “optional email”.

I got my first comment the same day.

8 months with comment form behind a disclosure triangle: no comments.
1 day without disclosure triangle: 1 comment. It was even a nice one.

I’m a dipshit who knows nothing about web site design.

The system emails the comments to me. I don’t know how to add the comment to the page yet. Let’s do that.
<one Claude Session Later…>
Done.