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External comments for static HTML pages, a lightweight self-hosted disqus alternative.

28 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 3 stories, 25 comments · first 2014-02-02 · latest 2018-10-28

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  1. My solution was is here - https://github.com/skx/e-comments There are others, such as https://github.com/posativ/isso/ out there too. There doesn't seem to be a single "standard" solution, because most people just don't care. They use…
    comment by stevekemp · 2018-10-28 · in Ask HN: Best Self Hosted Comment System?
  2. …luck. (I wrote some a simple self-hosted system, far less featureful, but it seems popular enough - http://github.com/skx/e-comments/ )
    comment by stevekemp · 2018-05-12 · in Show HN: JustComments – a comment system for websites
  3. …service (which I host) for doing real-time blog/forum spam detection. My project is here: https://github.com/skx/e-comments/
    comment by stevekemp · 2017-12-19 · in Moving from Disqus to Schnack
  4. …. Open source, install yourself. Comments stored as GitHub issues. - https://github.com/skx/e-comments . Open source, install yourself. - And my own: EffectiveDiscussions: https://www.effectivediscussions.org/blog-comments . Op
    comment by KajMagnus · 2017-12-05 · in Zeta Global acquires Disqus (YC S07)
  5. My own solution is here: https://github.com/skx/e-comments Which you can see demo'd on this page: https://tweaked.io/guide/demo/ Simple, no facebook-login, etc, but scales well and seems to offer enough to make conversation useful.…
    comment by stevekemp · 2017-10-21 · in Ask HN: Good alternatives to disqus?
  6. There are several self-hosted alternatives, for example my own toy-project: https://github.com/skx/e-comments/
    comment by stevekemp · 2017-10-09 · in Disqus Demonstrates How to Do Breach Disclosure Right
  7. I wrote a self-hosted alternative: * https://github.com/skx/e-comments/ You can see the demo-page here: * https://tweaked.io/guide/demo/
    comment by stevekemp · 2017-09-26 · in Disqus comments adding third-party ad-tracking
  8. Also my toy-project: https://github.com/skx/e-comments/ Demo: https://tweaked.io/guide/demo/
    comment by stevekemp · 2017-04-27 · in Show HN: Commento: Lightweight, open source, tracking-free alternative to Disqus
  9. I wrote a simple system like disquis, which you can find here: https://github.com/skx/e-comments/ I just used SQLite, but psql/mysql would work just as well. Handling comments, even threaded ones, isn't likely to be too heavyweight.
    comment by stevekemp · 2017-04-20 · in What would be your choice of DB for a commenting system?
  10. …like external & self-hosted javascript-based comments you might enjoy this toy project of my own: https://github.com/skx/e-comments/
    comment by stevekemp · 2017-04-02 · in Creating a microservice in NodeJs
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    story by stevekemp · 2017-02-24 · 1 comment
  12. I also wrote a self-hosted comment-server: https://github.com/skx/e-comments/ Mine uses Redis or SQLite for storage, and uses markdown. The biggest difference is mine is flat. I keep thinking I should rework it to allow nested comments,…
    comment by stevekemp · 2017-02-22 · in Isso: A Commenting Server Similar to Disqus
  13. Take a look at my toy project: https://github.com/skx/e-comments/ You can see them in use on my tweaked site, e.g: https://tweaked.io/guide/demo/
    comment by stevekemp · 2017-02-13 · in Disqus Ads Are No Longer Free to Disable
  14. https://github.com/skx/e-comments/ was my take on that - a disquis-like service that allows static-sites to add comments via javascript inclusion.
    comment by stevekemp · 2016-12-03 · in Ask HN: What “missing” technical solution(s) do you wish existed?
  15. And there are a few self-hosted "external comment" systems out there, including my own simple one: https://github.com/skx/e-comments/
    comment by stevekemp · 2016-11-09 · in Show HN: Embed HN comments in your website
  16. I setup self-hosted commenting system for my static site: https://github.com/skx/e-comments/ It could do with some more love, to add nested comments, but otherwise it might be of interest.
    comment by stevekemp · 2016-11-09 · in Show HN: Embed HN comments in your website
  17. I wrote a self-hosted static-comment system here: * https://github.com/skx/e-comments/ Seems mine is more basic than yours, due to lack of registration and lack of threading though.
    comment by stevekemp · 2016-09-19 · in Static Website Generators
  18. You can add comments to static sites via your own self-hosted disqus alternative. e.g. Mine: https://github.com/skx/e-comments/ FWIW my blog comes from a static compiler, which has comments which are received via HTTP-posts and folded into…
    comment by stevekemp · 2015-05-26 · in Ask HN: Which blogging software do you use, other than WP?
  19. You could compromise and setup your own external site. e.g. I wrote https://github.com/skx/e-comments/ for a static-site that wanted comments. You could use something like that, then later bring it into the main app/site as required. The…
    comment by stevekemp · 2014-11-14 · in Should I use delegated or native comments for my niche community site?
  20. …The back-end is a simple sinatra service that just allows "GET /comments" and "POST comments". ( http://github.com/skx/e-comments/ ) Last week I wrote a webhook-consumer, again using Sinatra. It receives a POST from github, parses the…
    comment by stevekemp · 2014-06-24 · in Lotus, a web framework for Ruby
  21. …comments. There are some self-hosted systems out there, including my trivial e-comments code: https://github.com/skx/e-comments/
    comment by stevekemp · 2014-06-06 · in Flickr is removing Facebook and Google sign-in
  22. …up a simple commenting system for my static site, modelled after disqus but far less featureful: http://github.com/skx/e-comments/ As used on http://tweaked.io/
    comment by stevekemp · 2014-05-18 · in Static Site Generators
  23. If you want to include comments on your static site you might enjoy this project: https://github.com/skx/e-comments/
    comment by stevekemp · 2014-04-14 · in Propose HN: Screenshot Saturday
  24. …upon external comment-providers though, which is why I wrote my own self-hosted comment-server: https://github.com/skx/e-comments/
    comment by stevekemp · 2014-03-04 · in HTMLy: Databaseless Blogging Platform (Flat-File Blog)
  25. Interesting timing, as I came up with my own implementation last week: Code: https://github.com/skx/e-comments/ Demo: http://www.steve.org.uk/Software/e-comments/demo.html This was built for my server-optimizing site, http://tweaked.io/…
    comment by stevekemp · 2014-02-09 · in New open source Disqus alternative: Debiki Embedded Comments
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    story by stevekemp · 2014-02-09 · 1 comment
  27. A self-hosted alternative to disqus: https://github.com/skx/e-comments/ Its cool because communication is fun. (I will continue to plug my console email client to http://lumail.org/ because email is cool, and scripting email with lua is…
    comment by stevekemp · 2014-02-03 · in Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool? (February 2014)
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    story by stevekemp · 2014-02-02 · 2 comments