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Scott Laird

I'm looking for a new comment system for my #Hugo blog, and I'm not seeing any clearly great options.

I've been using #Commento for #comments on my blog for a few years now, and it's about time to switch comment systems.

Commento has been effectively unmaintained for 4 years (see gitlab.com/commento/commento). Their (paid) hosted version has been continuing to work, but I've seen increasing numbers of errors lately, so it's time to move.

I'd really *love* something that could integrate semi-natively with #activitypub so new blog posts could show up in Mastodon and Mastodon replies would show up as comments, *but* I don't want to require a fediverse account for commenters; that rules out most (all?) of the embedded-Mastodon comment options.. After looking through Hugo's somewhat-outdated list of commenting options (gohugo.io/content-management/c), it looks like #Discourse is the only option that even *slightly* fits that, and it's a lot heavier-weight than I really want to run today. Hours-of-maintenance-per-comment should be less than 1, thanks.

Basic requirements:

- Either easy to self-host or has a cheap hosted option.
- Allows anonymous comments plus common external auth options.
- Possible to import comments from Commento, possibly requiring code on my part, but it needs to allow arbitrary names, etc.
- Works with static sites.
- Not a privacy disaster
- If self-hosted, ideally written in something sane -- Go, Rust, etc. *Ideally* it's a single binary that listens to HTTP and stores comments in Postgres.
- Supports Markdown.

Does anyone have anything that they're really happy with?

GitLabCommento / Commento · GitLabCommento is a fast, privacy-focused commenting platform
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Andreas Gohr

remember when I asked for a replacement for #disqus and then ranted about how none of the available solutions would also integrate with #mastodon?

Well shit. I did it again and scratched my own itch and barfed out another open source project.

Introducing: Meh..

https://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2025-03/26-meh_another_comment_system

* single install serves as many sites as you want
* can be used in static websites (it's lightweight web components in the frontend)
* imports Disqus
* fetches Mastodon replies as comments
* supports different languages (so far en, fr, es, de)
* probably has bugs

#opensource #opensourcesoftware #comments

The logo of Meh. A somewhat bored looking smiley that is also a chat bubble. The text says "Meh… another comment system"
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Veronica Olsen 🏳️‍🌈🇳🇴🌻

A couple of years back I wrote a blog post about linking my static blog posts to Mastodon threads so that the threads can serve as blog comments.

I realise I never pinned that post to my profile, and I have since deleted the Mastodon thread, so I'm sharing it again. I'm pinning it this time!

berglyd.net/blog/2023/03/masto

Veronica Writes · Threaded Mastodon CommentsAlready before I set up this website using Hugo, I wanted to integrate Mastodon comments into the posts. I had already come across this implementation by Carl Schwan before, and it seems to work really well. Integrating it was fairly straightforward, and is already explained in his post. I modified it a bit to remove the dialog box and include the core of those instructions in the comment section preamble. Aside from that, I was happy with the original setup as a starting point.
#Static#Blog#Hugo
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ZZ Bottom

#News #Comments #Youtube #Truth

@martinlogan8329
15 minutes ago
British guy here. As much as I believe the general USA population are against trumps extortion of Ukraine, i still won't forgive this ever. Well, unless you some how rise up and stop him. Bit you voted him in, so it's on you guys. And I'm sure the majority of the world feels the same as me. Sorry guys, but karma will definitely come for you on this one.
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David - Forking Mad

Komments

Seven months ago I had an idea, which led to me creating a thing!

I was using a #blogging tool but there was no #commenting feature on it. I decided to write something myself, as a side-loaded app, to add to my blog. It quickly became a bigger thing and I decided to offer it to anyone.

Komments.cloud was born.

It's a really simple idea. You create a Komments page related to your own page and add this link on your web page. Viewers to your page can then click on the link and add #comments. There's no login required. No hoops to jump through. No annoying Capatcha. Any comments are then quickly moderated by you before publishing.

Continue reading: https://forkingmad.blog/komments-seven-months/

A screen shot of the Komments Admin Dashboard. Six boxes showing various stats. 186 users are signed up; they have 2,793 pages with the ability to add comments; 2,901 people have left comments.
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