I’ve disabled commenting until I figure out how to reduce the memory usage of the comments script and improve the performance of the site overall. (The script has been getting killed by DreamHost’s automated process watcher, a sign that it’s using too much memory.)

I’ll take this opportunity to do some long-procrastinated upgrades that should help the situation and hopefully, among other things, make posting a comment a little bit faster.

This will probably take more than just a few hours; I’ll let you know when I’ve done tinkering.