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Ask HN: Best comment box free or commercial?
3 points by mrg3_2013 on Oct 17, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment
I need to add a comment box to my website. I looked into Disqus - but given recent hack is concerning. Any recommendations for a comment plugin ? I don't want to migrate my website to medium or other CMS platform since it's mostly ready already.


I'm developing embedded comments, like Disqus. Here's how it looks (scroll down to the bottom):

https://www.kajmagnus.blog/new-embedded-comments

What tech stack does your website use? Can I ask what do you write about? Maybe a link?

Anyway, the commeting system I'm developing, has some unique ideas — look here: https://www.effectivediscussions.org/-32/how-hacker-news-can.... However, I haven't ported all that to embedded-comments yet.

It's open source for installation on your own server (https://github.com/debiki/ed-server) — or $2/month hosting if you don't want to install things yourself. Currently there are no installation instructions ... but I'm actually planning to deploy a new server version later today, with installation instructions.

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More alternatives:

- Schnack, https://www.vis4.net/blog/2017/10/hello-schnack/

- Remarbox, https://my.remarkbox.com

- HostedComments, https://www.hostedcomments.com/

- Isso: https://posativ.org/isso/

- Mozilla's Talk, https://github.com/coralproject/talk




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