Sometime during my travels through old websites I came across Guestbookbutterflies, which was a collective that dedicated themselves to visiting and signing guestbooks. You had to apply to be visited and if your site passed muster then they would sign and leave a gift (which I think was a graphic of some sort). I thought that was such a neat idea.
Anyway, I hope you have fun on your guestbook journeying! I think it’s a great idea.
@DivergentRays the guestbook butterflies are such a fun concept! i’m now mulling over ideas for something similar… maybe a traveler’s journal theme or something instead of butterflies…
yes, i have one here, emma's guestbook it is just a form captured with javascript. the backend is running on supabase but i may opt to self host pocketbase instead
i wasn’t going to post it here yet but someone signed it recently so i may as well
just a heads up. you won’t really get any info that you submitted a comment, and it won’t show up right away. every few days i log into supabase and will approve comments that meet the criteria of being a decent human being
https://acyfactory.com/guestbook/
Even though it’s not very complicated code, I’m pretty proud of my guestbook since it’s one of the first things I coded that was out of the scope of the Wagtail tutorial, and I started it around the time that they announced 123guestbook (I think?) was closing so that made me feel good about my decision to not go static so I could be in charge of the dynamic elements of my website.