commento VS Tufte CSS

Commento (privacy-focused)

If I am not misunderstanding what you are trying to built, it seems that it exists already: https://www.powr.io/comments-website-app or https://commento.io/

Thanks - that one is on my short list along with Commento.

You might wanna check out commento as I've heard good things. Haven't personally used but the impression I get from it is quite positive.

Commento (https://commento.io/ ) is a nice service that I've used with static site generators like Hugo -- very easy to add to a project - no real coding required to include it, and people can add comments to your blog etc... Honest straightforward pricing model for their SASS offering, and it's open source, so you can host it yourself if you have a server.

Given that I don't want to rely on proprietary services, does anyone know of a Commento to Notado's Disqus? (i.e. equivalent but self-hostable and open-source)

Something like Commento?

Commento (Open Source, available as a service, local install, or docker image)

As it is often said in various designer forums, please avoid pure white (#FFFFFF) on black (here #111111), as it makes the text glow for the human eyes (therefore making it unreadable for long text). Instead, try to lower a bit the contrast on the text color.

Also, the dispositions for the buttons at the beginning (GitHub, NPM, ...) are not adjusted correctly for keyboard navigation (each button requires two tabs).

Appart from that, I do like a minimalist stylesheet, so I will also recommend Tufte CSS [0] for readers.

[0]: https://github.com/edwardtufte/tufte-css

CSS and HTML is great for documents - not so great for applications. Most sites end up implementing their own navigation UI/UX at a minimum (an application) - many end up as more applications.

For an example of "documents", see eg:

https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/

Or

https://alistapart.com/article/building-books-with-css3/

Just for kicks, I applied Tufte CSS[0] onto the page using a browser extension. Great ROI.

0. https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/

It's not the answer you're looking for, but https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/ might be of interest to you

A famous physicist, Richard Feynman, had a practice in his his extensive writing, e.g. a three-volume physics text, to use the methodology of sentences which then cumulate sequentially into paragraphs. (ht Ed Tufte)