Switching from Disqus to Commento reduced my page weight(victorzhou.com)
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Switching from Disqus to Commento reduced my page weight
https://victorzhou.com/blog/replacing-disqus/
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Commento is open-source and you should be able to self-host... was just looking at the Dockerfile used for builds, kind of beautiful actually. Haven't dug into the code (seems to be go-based), and unsure of the database platform used.
https://gitlab.com/commento
https://gitlab.com/commento
It says right there in the article that Commento is open source and can be self hosted though.
Also, Disqus is owned by Zeta Global, a marketing company
that exists to "maintain and monetize customers, using 'people-based, precision marketing'" with a database of 350 million people. [0]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeta_Global
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeta_Global
Commento > Disqus, but both are still hosted services. While I'd rather pay a few bucks a month and have a faster service without advertising, what I want is a commenting service I can self-host. More than that, I'd like to use a blogging program with an integrated commenting feature so it's not just a bolted on thing.
Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like the only blogging software that offers self-hosted comments that are integrated into the platform is good ol' Wordpress.org.
Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like the only blogging software that offers self-hosted comments that are integrated into the platform is good ol' Wordpress.org.
Looks like commento can be self hosted. https://gitlab.com/commento/docs/tree/master/installation/se...
I keep meaning to implement the GitHub PR-based comments that Phil Haack has been using. [0] I like the idea of PRs for comments and comments being static YAML files after they are posted.
[0] https://haacked.com/archive/2018/06/24/comments-for-jekyll-b...
[0] https://haacked.com/archive/2018/06/24/comments-for-jekyll-b...
https://utteranc.es is a nice solution for this
You've got many, many possibilities to go with [1]. But I agree, nothing beats Wordpress in terms of simplicity. BTW, Commento can be self-hosted.
[1] https://darekkay.com/blog/static-site-comments/
[1] https://darekkay.com/blog/static-site-comments/
Even Discourse is ok but you have to go offsite to post, something their owner has been adamant about not supporting. Perhaps there is a big market opportunity here to take the best of what's around and what customers are asking for.
Ghost?
I am actually currently developing a comments platform. I started this mainly for my blog, but would like to extend it into a SaaS service with free and paid plans. Can anybody say if there's a feature that you find important, but not implemented in Disqus or Commento? If it self-hosting was available, would you be willing to pay for it? Thanks!
Do you have a link to your blog? It'd be interesting to see how your comments look. I've also built a commenting system, if you're curious; link in my profile.
(Feel free to send me an email if you don't want to reply with a link to your blog publicly here on HN)
(Feel free to send me an email if you don't want to reply with a link to your blog publicly here on HN)
I noticed the same thing on AlgoDaily. Strange how unnecessarily bloated Disqus, what's it doing that requires an order of multitude more load time?
It's too bad that Commento is a hosted service, though. That's a major drawback to using it all by itself.