As mentioned, it looks like posts coming from micro.blog via XML-RPC are not respecting the default of having comments enabled. What's strange is that 'comment_status' should have a value of whatever 'default_comment_status' is set to so I'm not sure why posts made in this way... colinwalker.blog

@colinwalker Thanks for investigating that. I’ve found it to be a problem with various posting apps. I shall try your fix.

@stefp I’m not sure how robust it is but it seemed to do the trick in a test. Let me know if it works for you.

@colinwalker I’ve tested it with the Micro.blog app and Quill. Comments are open in both cases so it is working here.

@stefp Awesome. Thanks for that! Good to know it wasn’t just a quirk on my end.

@stefp No problem. Glad (and relieved) it worked.