Disqus, the Dark Commenting System

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  • commento

    A fast, bloat-free comments platform (Github mirror)

  • What are good self-hosted alternatives? I remember looking at Commento (https://github.com/adtac/commento) before, but if people have had good experiences with others I'd like to hear them.

  • Coral

    A better commenting experience from Vox Media (by coralproject)

  • I've seen some examples in which people embed Discourse discussions.

    There's also Coral (https://github.com/coralproject/talk) which used to be Mozilla + Vox project before Mozilla handed it over to Vox completely, but I have no experience with it.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • utterances

    :crystal_ball: A lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues

  • commentator

    A simple commenting system for your blog.

  • i'm the author of Commentator, a commenting system where comments are stored on any s3 compatible store (easier to manage than a DB or local storage): https://github.com/mcorbin/commentator

    It's still WIP but it supports comments approval, has a rate limiter, a challenge system to avoid spammers... I already use it for my personal blog.

  • remark42

    comment engine

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

  • commento

  • Commento is abandoned, they have a bug that prevents login and it's gone unfixed for years:

    https://gitlab.com/commento/commento/-/issues/174

  • staticman

    💪 User-generated content for Git-powered websites

  • Alternatives from my notes (never used them IRL):

    * https://github.com/eduardoboucas/staticman

    * https://github.com/schn4ck/schnack

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • Glosa

    Comments for static sites. Clone of Disqus, but faster, Opensource and sexy.

  • I don't know why you use Disqus when there is an Opensource alternative: Glosa --> https://github.com/glosa/glosa-server

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