I use this for my blog. To my knowledge, this is the only non scummy and free comment system
Utterances – a lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues
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Re: Utterances – a lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues
#12This is cool, but I do find it odd that GitLab and Gitea isn't supported. It's always strange to me seeing people choose to build their platforms dependent on proprietary 3rd party infrastructure when good open-source self-hosted alternatives are available and easy to set up.
Maybe I’m alone with this but when I’m on GitHub, for some reason it feels more like I’m part of a community. For some reason gitlab doesn’t convey that when I write an issue there. Maybe it’s due to the packages that are on GitHub and gitlab themselves. That’s why I prefer GitHub over gitlab, although everything we do in my team we do on gitlab.
Re: Utterances – a lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues
#13I use this for my blog. To my knowledge, this is the only non scummy and free comment system
Look into Cactus comments! https://cactus.chat/
Not affiliated. Just think it's cool.
Re: Utterances – a lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues
#14Github is a great platform for building apps that use its infrastructure, but not always for its intended purpose, this being a great example.
I've personally built a number of apps on top of Github Gist. One of my apps is a bookmark sharing application, the idea is you create a bookmark collection and share it with others, all seperate from your browsers bookmarks. I ended up using Github Gist and got the ability to share bookmark collections right out of the box with GistID's.
I built an app for bookmarks but you can really apply it to anything where you need to keep small amounts of data and that data doesn't need to be private (gist has a "Private" mode but it's similar to unlisted Youtube videos).
Re: Utterances – a lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues
#15I use this for my blog. To my knowledge, this is the only non scummy and free comment system
What's not to like about a service like Disqus? /s
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's not to like about a service like Disqus? /s
Actually, does anyone mind answering this question (non-sarcastically)? I'd be pretty interested in the answer.
Sure. The gist is that Disqus collects your data like no one's business, and other shady things like ads. It's a very popular commenting system because it's free to use and easy to setup, but there's an obvious downside. I would go more in depth but honestly the articles below do a much better job.
https://supunkavinda.blog/disqus
https://jacquesmattheij.com/disqus-bait-and-switch-now-with-...
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Re: Utterances – a lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues
#18This is cool, but I do find it odd that GitLab and Gitea isn't supported. It's always strange to me seeing people choose to build their platforms dependent on proprietary 3rd party infrastructure when good open-source self-hosted alternatives are available and easy to set up.
Maybe I’m alone with this but when I’m on GitHub, for some reason it feels more like I’m part of a community. For some reason gitlab doesn’t convey that when I write an issue there. Maybe it’s due to the packages that are on GitHub and gitlab themselves. That’s why I prefer GitHub over gitlab, although everything we do in my team we do on gitlab.
Hey there,
I'm on the Community Relations team at GitLab. I'd love to learn more about your experience as a member of the GitLab community.
When you say that opening an issue on GitLab doesn't make you feel part of a community, are you referring issues on one of GitLab's projects (ex: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab) or are you referring to issues on open source projects being hosted on GitLab.com?
Community is very important to us so when there are areas for improvement that feedback is really valued.
Re: Utterances – a lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe I’m alone with this but when I’m on GitHub, for some reason it feels more like I’m part of a community. For some reason gitlab doesn’t convey that when I write an issue there. Maybe it’s due to the packages that are on GitHub and gitlab themselves. That’s why I prefer GitHub over gitlab, although everything we do in my team we do on gitlab.
Hey there, I'm on the Community Relations team at GitLab. I'd love to learn more about your experience as a member of the GitLab community. When you say that opening an issue on GitLab doesn't make you feel part of a community, are you referring issues on one of GitLab's projects (ex: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab ) or are you referring to issues on open source projects being hosted on GitLab.com? Community is…
I think he meant just the network effects of a social platform. Github has more people in them so there are more people interacting with repositories hosted on Github.
I wish that somehow people carried identity across Github / Gitlab / Gitea / other services. Like, a federated issue tracker. Or otherwise that the issues themselves were easily movable between platforms, with no lock-in. But the incumbent platforms rarely want something like this.
An alternative is to eschew platform issues entirely, and use decentralized issue comments hosted as Git repositories, like https://github.com/dspinellis/git-issue or https://github.com/neithernut/git-dit or https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug - I think that Gitlab should offer integration with one of them. I mean: both allowing to export issues and PRs into a Git branch, and allowing people to comment on issues and PRs by pushing to a Git branch.
Re: Utterances – a lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues
#20There’s also giscus, which is inspired by Utterances and built on GitHub Discussions: https://giscus.app/