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Switching from Disqus to Commento reduced my page weight

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I don't know about Commento, but I do know that as a user, Disqus has never been good for me. A few years back, I realized that if a site used Disqus for its comments, that was functionally the same to me as the site not having comments at all.

It's too bad that Commento is a hosted service, though. That's a major drawback to using it all by itself.

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

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

Disqus = blacklisted at work, at home and on my mobile. It's the Facebook of commenting.

What do you mean Disqus is blacklisted on your mobile phone? How does that work? (who has blacklisted it? is it an iPhone? maybe it's the iOS anti tracker features?)

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.

Ghost?

Looks like commento can be self hosted. https://gitlab.com/commento/docs/tree/master/installation/se...

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.

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/

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...

https://utteranc.es is a nice solution for this

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)

Thanks for your reply! It isn't online yet, but hopefully I'll have it set up within the next few weeks so I'll be sure to send you the link then!

Ok :- )

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?

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