commento

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/

>Disqus gives these marketers the ability to target users based on their interests. You can infer quite a bit about people simply based on which sites they comment on, after all. So we can expect more targeted ads in Disqus embeds from mining user patterns. The platform is a already a mess; between making 105 network requests to 20+ domains associated with tracking, malware, ad platforms, and shady fingerprinting services, and the fact that adding Disqus costs you upwards of 6 seconds [0], this announcement is making things more user-hostile. Disclosure: I created an open-source, privacy-focused alternative called Commento [1] so my views on Disqus might be somewhat biased :) I will also be offering it as a subscription-based service very soon as many people have asked me for one (the open source version will stay free software forever).

Github repo: https://github.com/adtac/commento So I just released v0.2.0 today. With this release, there's a whole bunch of new features: * The entire UI has been overhauled. There's much more room available for the comment text, it's easier on eye, you can follow threads better, and it looks better on mobile. * You can now collapse and expand threads. * The comment input textarea automatically expands now. * Avatar support: the first character in your name is now used to generate a unique avatar for you. Your name is also used to create a unique color for your avatar and thread. (It's all happening on the client-side.) * Previously, Spectre was used as the CSS framework. While it was initially very useful (and it's still my favorite CSS framework), it had too many elements that I didn't use. I remade the styling from scratch and I think

This is something I'm wondering about too. I recently made a piece of software [1] that users can self-host (released under MIT). I also want to offer the exact same thing as a service to users who can't self-host and simply just want a pluggable snippet for their static websites. Obviously, if/when I offer the service, anybody who's tired of paying me money will simply spin up a VPS, install docker, pull my image, and run it themselves. It's fairly straightforward (and I'm happy that it's easy to self-host an instance of Commento). I'm just wondering if it is even worth it for me to offer this as a service. I'm not really looking for a huge profit - I'd be happy if it's simply self-sustainable (including development costs). [1] https://github.com/adtac/commento

I created https://github.com/adtac/commento - it's lightweight and privacy-focused. It's written in Go and you run it in a Docker container.

A new alternative, 2017, both open source and hosted, scroll down to the bottom here to see how it looks: https://www.kajmagnus.blog/new-embedded-comments It's called EffectiveDiscussions (for now) & it's an early beta version, I'm developing it. There are new ideas — look here: https://www.effectivediscussions.org/-32/how-hacker-news-can.... Install yourself: https://github.com/debiki/ed-server — or $2/month for hosting: https://new.ed.community/-/create-site/embedded-comments, main website: http://www.ed.community What tech stack does your blog use? Maybe a link? (What do you write about?) ——— More alternatives to Disqus: - 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.

You've ever been to one of those pages that embed Facebook's comment engine? Yeah, those are the worst. I did some analysis on a random page with just three Facebook comments. Requests to Facebook's servers accounted for 1.5 MB of the 2.4 MB tranfered by the ENTIRE page. 87 network requests, 35 javascript files injected and it didn't even load all the comments! (I had to click on a "Load more comments" button to load the rest of the comments.) Why the hell do you need 37 javascript files and 1.5 MB to load three comments? (Shameless plug to my own open source, lightweight and tracking-free comment engine alternative to Facebook, Disqus and the rest: https://github.com/adtac/commento)

I came across github.com/adtac/commento last week on Show HN and thought I'd port that impl using leveldb instead of sqlite3. The impl is in github.com/dyu/comments for anyone interested.