Lost comments after assigning custom domain

[mackuba]

I made a couple of test posts yesterday, e.g.: Kuba's Journal - Hello world. They were cross-posted to Bluesky and I got some replies there. I got the replies to show on the blog under the posts, after enabling “Include conversation on post page” in the design settings.

Then, I assigned a custom domain journal.mackuba.eu to the blog. The domain works fine, but the comments disappeared from the first two posts. A new comment is showing up on a third post here: Kuba's Journal - new domain, so it’s not a template issue.

It sounds like the comments made on Bluesky were somehow internally assigned not to the blog itself, but to the domain name, and now that I assigned a custom one, they’re not being returned in a query?…

[mackuba]

Yup, looks like the conversation.js script gets a URL parameter with the hostname in it, and it only returns the comments on the first post if it’s passed the old hostname: https://micro.blog/conversation.js?url=https://mackuba.micro.blog/2025/01/07/hello-world.html

It also doesn’t return anything unless I pass the URL with the .html suffix, while I have now this option turned off so URLs are generated with / suffix: https://micro.blog/conversation.js?url=https://mackuba.micro.blog/2025/01/07/hello-world/

[jarrod]

This sounds like a big turn-off for anyone considering moving to a custom domain (or changing their domain). Hopefully there’s a fix through redirects or something similar.

[sod]

There’s a bit more information in my answer here , along with a link to another relevant thread.

Trouble with Conversation.js

Hey Loura! Have you recently moved your blog from heyloura.micro.blog to heyloura.com? Looks like your smart-cats-being-smart post was published before you activated your custom domain. Conversation.js sometimes gets confused when moving from one domain to another. Theoretically, one could work around this problem by hacking around in your blog’s template and modifying Conversation.js. But it’s a bit involved. @mantion has mentioned before that he thinks Conversation.js could be improved upon…

[manton]

If this happens to you, reach out to me at help@micro.blog and I can manually update any internal URLs so things keep working. This is supposed to happen automatically, but wasn’t in some cases. I have another fix almost ready that should make domain renames more robust too.

[mackuba]

Ok! Btw, should comments also be synced from Bluesky if I manually share a link to the blog post on Bluesky myself, or are they only read from those Bluesky posts that were created by Microblog crossposter?