Staticman comment system fails with submission error

[lobopraveen]

On a site with Staticman commenting enabled, all the comments fail with submission error.

Try the demo site - https://minimo.netlify.com/docs/comments-support/
Fill in the comment section and press the Comment! button.

Observed behavior:

Yikes, Sorry!
Error occured. Couldn't submit your comment. Please try again. Thank You!

Also, the Staticman support in minimo is missing the reCAPTCHA implementation I think. See https://github.com/eduardoboucas/staticman-recaptcha#staticman--recaptcha

[MunifTanjim]

Try the demo site - https://minimo.netlify.com/docs/comments-support/

It is expected to fail. It's not enabled on the demo site.

[lobopraveen]

I just gave the demo site as an example without knowing it is not enabled there. I have it enabled on my site - praveenlobo.com . I tested it when I set it up and it had worked as you can see from the comments on the first post. However, It has stopped working and I get the same error as I get on the demo site. I don't remember testing it after enabling the reCAPTCHA. Maybe that's when it stopped working. I will disable it and see if commenting works again.

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[MunifTanjim]

I don't remember testing it after enabling the reCAPTCHA.

reCAPTCHA support is definitely not implemented in Minimo. If you need that, you'll have to override the /layouts/partials/comments/staticman/form.html. You'll probably need to change the javascript file too, I'm not sure about that.

[VincentTam]

reCAPTCHA support is definitely not implemented in Minimo

Many themes support reCAPTCHA, like Beautiful Hugo/Jekyll, Minimal Mistakes,etc. reCAPTCHA is a popular service that is easy to implement, despite inaccessible for some VPN users and considered as evil to haters of Google.

Due to Staticman's spam problem reported in eduardoboucas/staticman#175 and eduardoboucas/staticman#298, there's a genuine need for reCAPTCHA integration in this theme.