Ask HN: Best Self Hosted Comment System? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Best Self Hosted Comment System?

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Post by _frkl » Fri, Oct 26, 2018, 9:01 PM UTC

KajMagnus wrote: post #19

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 d…

Found this just yesterday, and really really like the concept.

Would be cool if it supported logins via Keycloak, as that's what I use. Will keep watching, it seems there's some work on Oauth/SSO going on.

Re: Ask HN: Best Self Hosted Comment System?

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Post by oboroten » Fri, Oct 26, 2018, 10:13 PM UTC

Look at https://remark42.com/

Re: Ask HN: Best Self Hosted Comment System?

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Post by zzo38computer » Fri, Oct 26, 2018, 10:16 PM UTC

Use NNTP perhaps

Re: Ask HN: Best Self Hosted Comment System?

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Post by buboard » Fri, Oct 26, 2018, 10:42 PM UTC

hazz99 wrote: post #2

If there is a demand for this, I will happily build it! I've been looking for a new FOSS project to start. Please either upvote or comment to let me know :)

how will you handle spam?

Re: Ask HN: Best Self Hosted Comment System?

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Post by mantlepro » Fri, Oct 26, 2018, 10:56 PM UTC

I wouldn't mind seeing an ActivityPub-based (http://activitypub.rocks) comment system. It would enable a decent self-hosted, experience that works with other AP-based platforms. The landscape for such a thing should be forthcoming given the popularity of Mastodon, PeerTube, and others supporting the protocol. Doesn't seem overly hard to implement for a comment system.

Re: Ask HN: Best Self Hosted Comment System?

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Post by ArchTypical » Fri, Oct 26, 2018, 11:10 PM UTC

decasteve wrote: post #5

Build a minimal one in php. Basic JavaScript and php form validation before the php sends an email to a comments@domain account. The email spam filter takes care of the spam. Your moderation tool becomes the email client. Have a script that runs locally to read the email and automatically insert it into the appropriate page. In my case I insert it into a Jekyll page yaml before recompiling and publishing the comment.

Like https://mylittleforum.net/ ?

Re: Ask HN: Best Self Hosted Comment System?

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Post by dddw » Sat, Oct 27, 2018, 1:15 AM UTC

oboroten wrote: post #22

Look at https://remark42.com/

nice but I wouldn't want to use sso

Re: Ask HN: Best Self Hosted Comment System?

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Post by fosco » Sat, Oct 27, 2018, 1:48 AM UTC

Lobsters[0] put their code up, might need some massaging, but maybe you could use it for inspiration.

[0] https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters

Re: Ask HN: Best Self Hosted Comment System?

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Post by osdiab » Sat, Oct 27, 2018, 1:50 AM UTC

KajMagnus wrote: post #19

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 d…

It looks like the comments aren’t showing up properly when I’m on Safari on iOS in the blog post :P

http://imgur.com/kFPTMaC

Re: Ask HN: Best Self Hosted Comment System?

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Post by ivankolev » Sat, Oct 27, 2018, 2:46 AM UTC

Not affiliated in any way, haven't actually used it and I see no development happening lately, so caveat emptor, but https://github.com/s-gv/orangeforum might be worth a look, it is written in Go and it does look decent.