I’ve been keeping a casual eye on the access logs for me, and I’ve been noticing that the traffic distribution has been shifting. Since the dawn of time, I’d see activity from crawlers and a few addresses that I could mostly recognise as friends around the world. Over the last few weeks, I’ve been seeing more regular requests from addresses that I can’t account for, and getting a few referrals from Google.

When I originally set up Pyblosxom, I’d specifically left out the comments plugin. Who needs the comment spam, when everyone who reads an entry already knows how to get in touch with me? With the increase in activity, I’m starting to rethink that decision. Before I decide anything, I’ll need to have a read through the plugin and see what sort of work is involved in setting it up. I’m somewhat lazy in cases like this, and can be quite easily deterred by a fair amount of non-trivial work, especially given the distinct possibility that I could be incredibly frustrated by comment spam in a short while.

I should have time to read through the plugin today, and I should actually make a decision by the weekend.