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Re:Disqus, a dark commenting system by andrewflnr on Friday February 05, 2021 @02:36AM (#26034006)
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.
Re:Disqus, a dark commenting system by input_sh on Friday February 05, 2021 @02:46AM (#26034050)
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.

Re:Disqus, a dark commenting system by wyattjoh on Friday February 05, 2021 @12:53PM (#26039127)
Lead developer at Coral here (so some experience :P)

Coral is more suited typically to larger organizations trying to power multi-site community tools. It has a powerful moderation system that's all open source! It's probably overkill for a static blog or small site.

Re:Disqus, a dark commenting system by sambf on Friday February 05, 2021 @03:19AM (#26034198)
I'm using Isso [0], it's simple, lightweight, and does the job. A demo is on their page.

[0] https://posativ.org/isso/

Re:Disqus, a dark commenting system by dbrgn on Friday February 05, 2021 @12:45PM (#26039004)
I've been using this for a few years already. Does it's job. I like it.
Re:Disqus, a dark commenting system by andrewflnr on Friday February 05, 2021 @10:29AM (#26037354)
That looks perfect.
Re:Disqus, a dark commenting system by andreareina on Friday February 05, 2021 @02:47AM (#26034058)
I helped someone set up discourse[1] a long time ago, don't know how it stands up these days; it's got basically zero presence in the parts of the web I'm around.

[1] https://www.discourse.org/

Re:Disqus, a dark commenting system by akvadrako on Friday February 05, 2021 @03:30AM (#26034246)
Discourse is quite popular, I see it regularly on new sites. Though it doesn't really fit the same niche as disqus.
Re:Disqus, a dark commenting system by CarVac on Friday February 05, 2021 @06:23AM (#26035161)
I've seen it used to operate as footer comments on blogs.
Re:Disqus, a dark commenting system by chewxy on Friday February 05, 2021 @08:34AM (#26036100)
Dgraph Labs uses it. I am a bit ambivalent about it. For example: https://dgraph.io/blog/post/putting-it-all-together-part1/

Here it says 7 comments. But you only get to see one. You have to click into the discourse post to get more. This is due to Discourse's threading model. 6 of the comments were replying to the one on the blog post itself.

Re:Disqus, a dark commenting system by rectang on Friday February 05, 2021 @10:29AM (#26037348)
I see 7 comments when I go to that page. Dig Dgraph fix something in the last hour? Or is the site treating you differently from me because I'm completely unknown to it?
Re:Disqus, a dark commenting system by mrjn on Friday February 05, 2021 @04:47PM (#26041637)
Discourse prefers a single level threading model, until Reddit or HN. So, you can in fact see all the 7 comments there. Not sure why you only see one.
Re:Disqus, a dark commenting system by akvadrako on Saturday February 06, 2021 @03:25AM (#26045138)
I also only see one - probably just a bug due to different browsers/adblockers.
Re:Disqus, a dark commenting system by KajMagnus on Saturday February 06, 2021 @12:07AM (#26044286)
> basically zero presence in the parts of the web I'm around

What parts of the web are that, if I may ask?

I think Discourse is popular in software and tech related organizations — I see it a lot on such websites.

Re:Disqus, a dark commenting system by KajMagnus on Friday February 05, 2021 @04:45AM (#26034612)
Talkyard Blog Comments, https://talkyard.io/blog-comments

(I'm developing it. Open source: https://github.com/debiki/talkyard. Not yet so well documented — soon time to add more docs, ... as per this nice discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26002656 )

Re:Disqus, a dark commenting system by StavrosK on Friday February 05, 2021 @04:10AM (#26034447)
Commento is abandoned, they have a bug that prevents login and it's gone unfixed for years:

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

Re:Disqus, a dark commenting system by prophesi on Friday February 05, 2021 @11:39AM (#26038166)
Unfixed for 1 year, not years. I've got an instance of Commento running on two of my sites and haven't run into / heard of this issue on Firefox. Though I'm not using the Docker image.

Maybe give better steps to reproduce the issue, as it seems to only be happening to one other person?

It does seem like Commento's development has lost its momentum (last commit was 6 months ago). The author likely isn't getting more funding from Mozilla and is focusing on their primary money-maker, the cloud-hosted service.

Re:Disqus, a dark commenting system by StavrosK on Friday February 05, 2021 @03:32PM (#26040828)
> Unfixed for 1 year, not years

May 2019 is almost two years now.

> Maybe give better steps to reproduce the issue, as it seems to only be happening to one other person?

Or maybe we're the only ones who bothered using/reporting it. I don't really have any STR, they consist of "Install Commento, try to log in, you can't".

Re:Disqus, a dark commenting system by mcorbin on Friday February 05, 2021 @03:06AM (#26034136)
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.

Re:Disqus, a dark commenting system by urtrs on Friday February 05, 2021 @03:06AM (#26034139)
Re:Disqus, a dark commenting system by supz_k on Friday February 05, 2021 @02:56AM (#26034098)
Yep, commento is a great self-hosted alternative.

There's also Isso[1] and utterances[2] (Github issues based)

[1] - https://posativ.org/isso/ [2] - https://github.com/utterance/utterances

Re:Disqus, a dark commenting system by darekkay on Friday February 05, 2021 @05:53AM (#26034987)
Re:Disqus, a dark commenting system by winrid on Saturday February 06, 2021 @12:02AM (#26044263)
I run one, and we support migrations from Commento - I already dropped the link once here, don't want to be too spammy :)

I never understood Commento's SSO system. We went with HMAC instead.

Re:Disqus, a dark commenting system by foxhop on Friday February 05, 2021 @09:02AM (#26036396)
https://www.remarkbox.com

I'm the founder and in 2021, in the face of the Monopolistic take over of speach and allowing communities to self-moderate, I've made the service free!

Reference:

https://www.remarkbox.com/remarkbox-is-now-pay-what-you-can....

Worth reading the publicly released statement.

Re:Disqus, a dark commenting system by Doctor_Fegg on Friday February 05, 2021 @03:28AM (#26034242)
Not self-hosted:

One alternative I’ve seen a few times recently is to start your own subreddit. Post your articles to it, link to the Reddit thread at the bottom of each posting, and let the conversation take place over there.

Re:Disqus, a dark commenting system by titanomachy on Friday February 05, 2021 @03:44AM (#26034323)
Reddit has crippled their mobile browsing experience to push people towards the app. I'd prefer not to force all readers to download another app.
Re:Disqus, a dark commenting system by Daho0n on Friday February 05, 2021 @03:30AM (#26034248)
Eh, hosting on reddit isn't much better than Disqus.
Re:Disqus, a dark commenting system by corobo on Friday February 05, 2021 @05:07AM (#26034738)
Worse even. It's in Reddit's interest to get the reader off your blog and into their app