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Re: Komments – Simple comment embedding

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post #4

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Hi, I'm the author of that thing. It's free and I'm not planning to charge unless it'll actually take off and maintenance cost gonna rise to much for me to keep it free.

This is for ruby/rails? Is there gem or a repo?

Everything is script based- no gems, just embedded JS.

Re: Komments – Simple comment embedding

#22
post #16

I see that the footer says "a Hashrocket open source project". Is the source available on GitHub/Bitbucket or similar?

Not yet.

So then this project isn't open source. I understand that it will be, but it seems disingenious to add the comment about it being open source.

Re: Komments – Simple comment embedding

#23
The website doesn't do a very good job of describing the integration,and I've seen a few people asking about it. Basically this is just JavaScript that you embed on your page, no back-end integration required. All your comments are actually hosted by them so you don't have any direct access to comments on your back-end. I have been looking for a simple solution to comments for a personal site, so I tried this out. Integration was dead simple, copy & paste into your HTML. Wouldn't use on any bigger projects until I see the full source, but I will continue to use it for now.

Re: Komments – Simple comment embedding

#25
post #16

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Not yet.

So then this project isn't open source. I understand that it will be, but it seems disingenious to add the comment about it being open source.

Removed the "open source" mentions. Sorry for the confusion. I didn't post it on Hacker News, I've just mentioned it in twitter for people who follow me. Didn't expect that much attention from HN.

Re: Komments – Simple comment embedding

#26
post #17

Add a WordPress plugin that replaces their comment system, the same way Disqus' does so, and you'll instantly work with over 1 in 5 sites on the web -- 80 million websites or so. If you really want this to take off, that'd be what gets the growth going and gives you a large enough userbase to figure out what's going to break and what features you need. It also addresses early adopter concerns about what happens if Ko…

There is also Isso, a open source and self-hosted comment tool that implements on your site just like Disqus.

Do you have a direct lsso? Can't seem to find it anywhere

Re: Komments – Simple comment embedding

#27
post #26
post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is also Isso, a open source and self-hosted comment tool that implements on your site just like Disqus.

Do you have a direct lsso? Can't seem to find it anywhere

Looks like this is it:

http://posativ.org/isso/

Re: Komments – Simple comment embedding

#28
post #16

I see that the footer says "a Hashrocket open source project". Is the source available on GitHub/Bitbucket or similar?

Not yet.

Yeah, that's really lame - don't call it open source until AFTER you've published the code - with an open source license.

Re: Komments – Simple comment embedding

#30
I can't get to komments.net. HN server overload?

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