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Re: Ask HN: Best Self Hosted Comment System?

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Post by adtac »

guu wrote: post #10

I’ve never tried self hosting it but commento ( https://gitlab.com/commento/commento-ce ) might work for you.

Heyo, thanks a lot for the shout-out. Original author here, happy to answer any questions you guys might have. Here's a demo of what Commento looks like: https://demo.commento.io

I should mention that there's also an enterprise edition that adds proprietary, enterprise-y features like audit logs, SSO, etc. that you can purchase for a one-time fee [1]. It also supports the project :)

But worry not, the community edition will always be fully functional and I'll never make it crippleware.

[1] https://commento.io/pricing

Re: Ask HN: Best Self Hosted Comment System?

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Post by krapp »

iamgopal wrote: post #9

Shouldn't Hacker news be open source, since monetization is not their primary intent ? That could be a nice comment system. Edit: since Hacker news uses firebase, it would be nice to have some statistics for Their firebase usage and costing etc, if available anywhere ?

The software Hacker News is based upon is open source[0], however Hacker News itself is not, because the site is run by a venture capital firm and monetization is the primary intent of many users who are YC's potential clients.

[0]http://arclanguage.org/

Re: Ask HN: Best Self Hosted Comment System?

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Post by iKevinShah »

On a related note, say I want to build my own commenting system (self hosted), any good papers / articles / discussion topics to share?

Topics from db structure to how to handle nesting(display wise), sorting (top / trending), etc. Some gotchas which we might miss.

Re: Ask HN: Best Self Hosted Comment System?

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Post by cweagans »

guu wrote: post #10

I’ve never tried self hosting it but commento ( https://gitlab.com/commento/commento-ce ) might work for you.

I host Commento for a couple sites, and it's awesome. It's really easy to manage and it kind of just works. My only gripe with it is the lack of email notifications for followup comments, but that's certainly not a deal breaker for small sites like mine.

Re: Ask HN: Best Self Hosted Comment System?

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Post by captn3m0 »

avinassh wrote: post #6
osdiab wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes! If it’s something that I can host as cloud functions or something that would be even cooler :) I’d contribute.

Using Cloud Functions would be interesting. But how would you handle persistence?

Haven't looked, but I distinctly remember AWS Lambda +Dynamo DB based solution long back on a Show HN. I'm on mobile now, but will find and post a link later

Re: Ask HN: Best Self Hosted Comment System?

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Post by LinuxBender »

captn3m0 wrote: post #17
avinassh wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Using Cloud Functions would be interesting. But how would you handle persistence?

Haven't looked, but I distinctly remember AWS Lambda +Dynamo DB based solution long back on a Show HN. I'm on mobile now, but will find and post a link later

AWS is third party.

Re: Ask HN: Best Self Hosted Comment System?

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Post by KajMagnus »

Talkyard looks like Disqus, is open source self hosted. Plus serverless hosting no ads no tracking:

Demo: https://www.kajmagnus.blog/new-embedded-comments/

More info: https://www.talkyard.io/blog-comments

There're Discourse + Hacker News discussion forum features too, if later on you want to start a forum / community around your blog. Email notifications. Sign in with Gmail / Facebook / GitHub / email+password. I'm developing Talkyard.

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