Footer with references disappearing in distill blog posts when removing author and afiiliation bar

[LoryPack]

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Describe the bug
Hi, thanks so much for providing such a beautiful theme. I am having some troubles with the distill post format. I want to write a blog post with that (rather than with the "post" layout) in order to exploit the bibliographic capabilities. However, I would like to remove the authors bar on the top, which appears immediately below the title (see the example https://alshedivat.github.io/al-folio/blog/2018/distill/). I am able to remove that in two ways:

1. by removing the line
   

   al-folio/_layouts/distill.html

   Line 66 in 4f9cdb1

   <d-byline></d-byline>

2. by removing
   

   al-folio/_layouts/distill.html

   Lines 17 to 33 in 4f9cdb1

   	"title": "{{ page.title }}",
   	"description": "{{ page.description }}",
   	"published": "{{ page.date }}",
   	"authors": [
   	{% for author in page.authors %}
   	{
   	"author": "{{ author.name }}",
   	"authorURL": "{{ author.url }}",
   	"affiliations": [
   	{
   	"name": "{{ author.affiliations.name }}",
   	"url": "{{ author.affiliations.url }}"
   	}
   	]
   	}{% if forloop.last == false %},{% endif %}
   	{% endfor %}
   	],

Both of them however have the side effect of removing also the footer were references and footnotes are supposed to appear.

To Reproduce
Update the distill.html file as described above. I have done it in my fork here and here for the two above options, which yield the webpages which you can see here and here.

Expected behavior
I expected the author and affiliation bar to disappear, but the footer with references to remain there.

System (please complete the following information):

• OS: Ubuntu 20.04
• Browser: Firefox 84.0, Chrome 81.0.4044.122
• Jekyll version: 3.9.0
• Ruby version: ruby 2.7.0p0 (2019-12-25 revision 647ee6f091) [x86_64-linux-gnu]

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[YifanJiang233]

I also came across the same problem. A quick solution is to comment out the following two lines:

1. al-folio/assets/js/distillpub/template.v2.js

   Line 1115 in 67c3251

   byline = dom.createElement('d-byline');

2. al-folio/_layouts/distill.html

   Line 70 in 67c3251

   <d-byline></d-byline>

[LoryPack]

That does not work for me

[YifanJiang233]

It does work for me and for the original template as well, see #1804. Could you check your .bib file or template.v2.js?