Alright, I know I've asked similar questions, but I feel this is hopefully a bit different. I'm integrating django.comments into my application, and the more I play with it, the more I realize it may not even be worth my while at the end of the day. That aside, I've managed to add Captcha to my comments, and I've learned that customizing the form is a terrible idea (hiding that honeypot is stupidly difficult, and from what I can tell requires JS to hide. Pity.). That's alright though, I've managed to work with it. However, the templates for the comments (preview and posted) are frustrating.
When a user is sent to the preview or posted templates, I'd like my sidebar's that have dynamic data to still be functional, however they're not. Do I have to override/rewrite the comments views to push data to these views? At that point it seems like I'm rewriting a major chunk of the comment system anyway, and it'd almost be beneficial to just write my own in that case. I'm more than willing to do that, and totally understand that I'm not entitled to a perfect comments system from Django. I just want to make sure I'm thinking right, and that if I want more than what I get from the comment views, that rewriting them is my only path.
Surely someone's found a healthier way though, so I thought I'd poll the audience. Any thoughts? If you need more info, just lemme know!