I’m very new to self host, so apologies if I say things wrong.
Anyway, I’m looking for comment systems that I can deploy to fly.io (or similar systems but not Heroku) for my static pages (Jekyll) that comes with Codeberg/Sourcehut pages. I found staticman but it assumes Github/Gitlab.
Thanks!
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If you want a truly privacy respecting option (because self hosting), I’ve been using https://cactus.chat which is great. I specifically use it on my streaming setup as it’s real time as well to boot.
Disqus could be integrated but I am not completely sure.
I’ve heard that it’s not very privacy respecting, is it right?
I am not sure what could be the problem? People will comment if they want.
The biggest advantage of a static site is that it doesn’t need to have that “cookie bar” bs that the eu is forcing everyone down the throat. Disqus nullifies this point
@Moonrise2473 @G0FuckThyself that cookie thing isn’t bad.
It’s bad because it’s ruining the web. I hate it so much, it’s killing the aesthetics of any website
And anyway I don’t trust the site owner to actually do something if I choose “reject”, I just use my browser option to reject the cookies and so on
@Moonrise2473 They are required by law to honour it. GDPR is a good thing. It should be enacted worldwide.
i agree that the GDPR is a good thing, it’s just the cookie bar concept is aesthetically unpleasant
I use hypothes.is
The folks at Jekyll seem to recommend Talkyard:
https://jekyllrb.com/resources/
I’m not super familiar with this as I was just looking into it myself from your post but figured I’d highlight that for ya.
Edit: seems their link is broken so here’s a working one:
That talkyard seems cool
Is it difficult to run?
thanks, and that’s great that this can be used for other static pages as well.
stupid general question: in the “install it yourself” guide, they say that this needs to be run on a VPS, for example with DigitalOcean. I’m thinking of deploying on fly.io, which I understand is like an alternative for Heroku. Is there a conceptual difference between these types of solutions (DigitalOcean vs fly.io for example) that might affect hosting?
Currently using https://utteranc.es/ for my blog. Though I’m not sure in the privacy side. It uses github issues as the backend.
that looks cool! Do commenters need a github account to do that though?
They do. I can see that it’s a deal breaker for some, but IMO github acc is better than disqus. IDK, maybe there are better options listed by others here.
My requirements were I don’t want to deal with user accounts and spam, and not disqus (I’ve blocked it with pihole).
Commento looked interesting the last time I was searching for an option.
Or since you’re on the fediverse already, there’s webmentions.
I was remembering it was abandoned? Someone forked it as commento++
Cool, thanks for the suggestions!
Never heard of webmentions but I’ve heard some people have integrated mastodon their Jekyll pages, I wonder if that’s the same thing.
I read about mastodon comments previously, I think it was this article https://carlschwan.eu/2020/12/29/adding-comments-to-your-static-blog-with-mastodon/
Wow that’s amazing
I considered for my blog to run nodebb with the blog comments plugin
What do you think?
