Commento - A Self Hosted Comment System for Websites

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  • commentoplusplus

    Commento with out of the box patches and updates to add useful features and fixes. Also with one-click deploy to Heroku so you can get up and running fast.

  • There's a fork called Commento++ that I've deployed to my own personal website, which I've been happy with. It it integrated very nicely with PicoCMS.

  • chirpy

    šŸ’¬ A privacy-friendly and customizable Disqus (comment system) alternate. ę³Ø重隐ē§äæęŠ¤å’Œå®šåˆ¶åŒ–ēš„čƄč®ŗē³»ē»Ÿć€‚

  • Iā€™m building a similar open source project too! Checkout https://github.com/devrsi0n/chirpy

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • Coral

    A better commenting experience from Vox Media (by coralproject)

  • For comment system, I choose Coral Project Talk because it could use Akismet and Google Perspective API for reducing spam and harassment. I also need to think about the remove comments when user delete their account (GDPR stuff). Coral Talk has the above functions in the UI.

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  • I was really excited about Commento when I found it. I signed up as a paying customer, but then the owner just ignored me entirely. I even submitted fixes for their documentation and the MR has been sitting there for 2 years without acknowledgment.

  • Talkyard

    A community discussion platform: Brings together the main features from StackOverflow, Slack, Discourse, Reddit, and Disqus blog comments.

  • I switched to TalkYard, which has been a much better experience. They're OSS, they support both blog posts and full-fledged forums, and the maintainer is extremely responsive and active.

  • 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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