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Maybe it's isolated to me and my work here on this repo: https://github.com/coralproject/talk I agree that Relay CAN be simple, but it isn't for what we do. Have a look at this ReplyListContainer and its nested Relay logic. I didn't originally write this, but I can see what they were trying to do and how Relay made it difficult for them. Your thoughts are welcome, I won't judge you for being critical of our code and welcome any other Relay dev's opinions. https://github.com/coralproject/talk/blob/develop/client/src...

The Coral Project [0] (commenting platform used on Washington Post, New York Times, The Verge) uses an Apache 2.0 license [1]. Which doesn't seem to have prevented it from raking in big SaaS customers. A lot of people worry about copy-cat services, but it's kind of rare that someone will be able to compete with you as the original in hosting your own service as well as you can. Especially when you consider support and maintenance requirements of a new product you aren't personally developing. I could see copy-cat services being more of an issue in the late stage of a product though? When everyone knows lots about how to stand it up and use it? [0] https://coralproject.net/ [1] https://github.com/coralproject/talk/blob/develop/LICENSE

Yup! We do that at Coral! Typescript/Node.js/GraphQL back-end with React/Relay/Typescript on the front end. https://github.com/coralproject/talk It's pretty nice having the whole code base share types, syntax, structure, etc. It's served us well for many years! Some of our clients include: The Washington Post, New York Times, Wired, USA Today, and Financial Times

Coral is poorly advertised outside it's ecosystem, but should be considered. https://github.com/coralproject/talk See https://docs.coralproject.net/coral/v5/integrating/cms/ to get an idea of it's use.

I've seen some examples in which people embed Discourse discussions. There's also Coral (https://github.com/coralproject/talk) which used to be Mozilla + Vox project before Mozilla handed it over to Vox completely, but I have no experience with it.

Seems the project isn't being so actively developed any longer? https://github.com/coralproject/talk/graphs/contributors Why is that? (In the summer of 2018 and onwards, 90%? 95%? of the GitHub activity abruptly disappeared) Two other open source blog commenting system that are being actively developed are Commento https://commento.io and Talkyard https://www.talkyard.io/blog-comments (I'm developing it).

Their license says the copyright of the project belongs to Mozilla. How weird. https://github.com/coralproject/talk/blob/master/LICENSE

For a static Github Pages website, I would like to have a commenting system. The idea is to use Firebase, because: 1. It gives social login: Google, Twitter, Github, FB 2. I want to use Firebase for some other functionality not related to comments. For a user it should be very convenient: once authenticated he/she can comment and can use other site features (these "features" rely on Firebase) So much theory. I started to search for Firebase commenting system and... I can find only the projects with 0 or 1 release, projects with 1 contributor, projects abandoned 5 years ago, example projects... you got the idea. A commenting system should have a few features: something like an admin interface; something to fight/prevent spam. I can not find such a thing with Firebase as a backend! There are quite advanced self-hosted systems, Coralproject

We used to use Mongoose in our project[0], but found that at the volumes of interactions we were dealing with, it was orders of magnitude faster to just use the raw Node.JS driver. [0]: https://github.com/coralproject/talk/tree/next

We'd love to be involved: https://coralproject.github.io/talk/ Talk is part of The Coral Project from Mozilla. It's an open source commenting tool now in use on The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, The Intercept, and many others. We also conduct research about online communities, as well as publishing strategy guides and trainings. https://coralproject.net/research.html Code, Heroku install link, and more here: https://github.com/coralproject/talk/

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

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.

I'm developing embedded comments, like Disqus. Here's how it looks (scroll down to the bottom): https://www.kajmagnus.blog/new-embedded-comments What tech stack does your website use? Can I ask what do you write about? Maybe a link? Anyway, the commeting system I'm developing, has some unique ideas — look here: https://www.effectivediscussions.org/-32/how-hacker-news-can.... However, I haven't ported all that to embedded-comments yet. It's open source for installation on your own server (https://github.com/debiki/ed-server) — or $2/month hosting if you don't want to install things yourself. Currently there are no installation instructions ... but I'm actually planning to deploy a new server version later today, with installation instructions. ——— More alternatives: - Schnack, https://www.vis4.net/blog/2017/10/hello-schnack/ - Remarbox, ht

Also Talk [1], which you can self host! (Disclaimer, engineer on the team!) [1]: https://github.com/coralproject/talk

If anyone was looking for it, the source is here: https://github.com/coralproject/talk