utterances VS remark42

Handling New Comments: There are excellent lightweight comment utilities available for managing comments on your eleventy blog. I personally use Utterances, but Giscus is also a great alternative.

We can use utteranc.es, a lightweight comment widget built on GitHub Issues to integrate authed comments in our blog.

utterances (open-source)

Typically, a comment requires server side code and a lot of messy management. It’s a pain. These comments rely on a tool called utterances. Utterances uses GitHub’s issue tracker which was designed to track bugs, as part of that it includes extensive comment and discussion capabilities. If an issue doesn’t exist, utterances will automatically create that issue for you. It created this issue for the comments in this page...

I've installed utterances on my GitHub repo. I've configured it and given it the appropriate permissions. At the end of setup, it provided me with an HTML script and the following instructions:

Fortunatly we have free, lightweight and efficient options to add comments in blog website or any website. I am talking about utteranc.es. A lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues. Use GitHub issues for blog comments, wiki pages and more!

Go to https://utteranc.es and follow the instructions to set up the commenting system.

Giscus drew significant inspiration from utterances, which utilize an issue-based comment system instead of discussions. I experimented with utterances initially, but I found it less convenient due to its reliance on an issue tracker for conversational purposes.

If you're building a blog for developers, you can use a third-party commenting service that requires login with github, for example https://utteranc.es/

https://remark42.com/ is far better, comes with a lot less garbage code, except it selfhosted

remark42 is used in production, this has been taken straight out of it

[1]: https://remark42.com

Remark42

Remark42 (Open source, Golang, Easy to run docker)

For comment system, I choose Coral Project Talk because it could use Akismet and Google Perspective API. I also need to think about the remove comments when user delete their account (GDPR stuff). Coral Talk have function in the UI. It seems Remark42 UI is not completed for this part ( see https://github.com/umputun/remark42/issues/54 ) But for development wise, it took one month for the Coral Project devs to get a reply for cheking an issue. They also turned down feature requests and said it's in the roadmap. If Coral Project Talk doesn;t exist, I probably choose Remark42.

on their github page :) https://github.com/umputun/remark42

Remark42 is also good https://github.com/umputun/remark42