commento

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.

Seeing the current $70/month for 250,000 page views definitely turned me away (did I read that right? weird decimal place in your copy: 250000.00), but I might not be your target audience. If you do lower the price, just make sure it's long-term sustainable. $5 for 5 million page loads (if that's what you mean in your comment above) would be great, and something I'd consider (since the alternative for me is setting up a $5 DO droplet with schnack[0] or commento[1]) but that might be a bit too cheap depending on the costs on your side (e.g. fighting spam). Might be worth looking at competitors' pricing for inspiration. A lot of developer types would most likely choose your service over disqus even if you're a bit more expensive, simply because of all the bloat and tracking and shady behavior of disqus. That would be too expensive for me, b

Wow, never thought someone would pay attention to that! I was the original contributor (https://github.com/adtac/commento/pull/109) for that change, so happy to answer any questions.

Shameless plug: my own alternative to Disqus: https://github.com/adtac/commento There's also a hosted service I've been building for the past five months, if you don't want to bother with setting up and maintaining servers, but also don't want your readers to be mercilessly tracked by Disqus and their endless tracking partners. It's currently in private beta, but I'd be glad to invite anyone reading this (as a bonus, you'll get a lifetime free subscription for beta testing); shoot me an email (address in profile) :)

Hello! I'm the author of Commento [1], one of the recipients of this award. Feel free to ask me any questions (I can answer) about the MOSS programme, about Commento, or anything else you're curious about. [1] https://github.com/adtac/commento

The topic of Disqus alternatives comes up every once in a while on HN, so I was thinking about inviting the people working on Disqus alternatives to my chat room and have a conversation about their projects and the comments space in general and write a lightly edited blog post based on the chat. Here are some of the people I plan to talk to: * `foxhop of https://www.remarkbox.com/ * `adtac of https://github.com/adtac/commento * `KajMagnus of https://www.effectivediscussions.org/ * The person behind Isso * The person behind https://github.com/schn4ck/schnack * Aja of Civil Comments (it shut down recently https://medium.com/@aja_15265/saying-goodbye-to-civil-commen... ) * And of course, my own https://www.hostedcomments.com/ We actually had the first discussion in the chat room (though we went off topic very quickly), you can read it here h

Thank you! :) This was only possible because of all the contributors [1]: some of the design paradigms were entirely their ideas, so credits to them as well. [1] https://github.com/adtac/commento/graphs/contributors

Built Commento, a privacy-focused alternative to Disqus: https://github.com/adtac/commento Right now, it exists as a Github project that you can self-host, but I'll soon offer it as a paid service if you don't want to host and maintain servers on your own. (And maybe even apply to YC, who knows :)) It started out with me reading a blog post [1] and thinking "I can write Disqus tonight". And that's how it began; I had a working prototype in 24 hours (at the expense of a final exam I had in two days haha). Posted it on HN, and it blew up. And then I sat down and made it into a serious project that's now actually used by other people. I've had senior devs from huge companies (like Atlassian) contribute to the project, and I think that's amazing. http://donw.io/post/github-comments/

Take a look at https://github.com/gka/schnack https://posativ.org/isso/ https://github.com/adtac/commento :)

A privacy-focused Disqus alternative https://github.com/adtac/commento

> Why do they expect me to be able to use Docker by default? Because it's easier to follow the instructions for installing Docker once, than to follow the instructions for each piece of software you might want to install. > Is there any common knowledge of extracting a software > package out of such "dockerized" projects that I don't > know of? Have you tried just following the commands in the DockerFile? The DockerFile for the project you mentioned looks a lot like the Install.md that I presume you want. https://github.com/adtac/commento/blob/master/Dockerfile

Hi HN! I'm a bit old school, wanting to run my software packages from OS repos or compiling them myself, creating aliases for them and such. Recently, I have encountered a bunch of great open source projects that just say "Docker run" this in order to use it. Why do they expect me to be able to use Docker by default? Even for really simple projects with not a lot of dependancies. Example: https://github.com/adtac/commento#getting-started Isn't it a major selling point of Go to be able to ship single binaries that "just run"? Why enforce Docker on users? To my eyes, it looks like I'm expected to run a (fast/quick)VM for every software package in an operating system. Why? Is there any common knowledge of extracting a software package out of such "dockerized" projects that I don't know of? Any educating in this respect is appreciated.

All (?) upcoming alternatves to Disqus: (my own listed last) - Mozilla's Talk, https://github.com/coralproject/talk. Open source, install yourself. - Discourse, https://www.discourse.org/. One needs to navigate to a separate page, to post a comment. Not threaded. Min $20/month. Open source. Facebook and Gmail login. - Isso: https://posativ.org/isso/. Open source, install on your own server. - Commento, https://github.com/adtac/commento. Open source. Moderation, spam-protection and hosting is under development. - Schnack, https://www.vis4.net/blog/2017/10/hello-schnack/. Open source, install yourself. Has GitHub and Facebook login. - HostedComments, https://www.hostedcomments.com/. Proprietory. Min $10/month - Remarbox, https://www.remarkbox.com/. Proprietory. Min $4/month - Gitalk. https://github.com/gitalk/gitalk. Open source, install yo

Thanks! You can find the latest amd64 binary releases here: https://github.com/adtac/commento/releases About the docker part: I should edit that. I wasn't making point releases back when I wrote it and docker was the easiest way to get it running back then.

I recently stumbled over commento https://github.com/adtac/commento "A lightweight, privacy-focussed comment engine alternative to Disqus." You can easily host it yourself. There's a live demo at https://commento.adtac.pw/