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Yes, Isso [1] if you can self host. Whilst it doesn't track you like Disqus, it does have issues. For one you must have unsafe-eval in your CSP policy. That's s
by Libbum 9y ago
Yes, Isso [1] if you can self host. Whilst it doesn't track you like Disqus, it does have issues. For one you must have unsafe-eval in your CSP policy. That's something I'm not very fond of, so I've started to build an alternative: Oration [2], but it's not ready just yet.
[1] - https://posativ.org/isso/ https://posativ.org/isso/
[2] - https://github.com/Libbum/oration https://github.com/Libbum/oration
- mslate 9y agoI looked into this recently--Isso is heavily tied to sqlite w/o good reason. I would not recommend from a high availability or even simple backup perspective. The other key feature I'm curious about w/ Disqus alternatives is spam filter performance. Isso does not have any besides manual curation of comments.
- Libbum 9y agoBoth points you make are certainly valid. I'd say that Isso really targets low readership blogs that do just fine on a cheap unmanaged VPS instance though, so a high availability alternative isn't a requirement for that demographic. Unfortunately this also rolls over to the spam filter portion. There were discussions in the bug tracker about this a while back, where the main Isso dev stated that it's a mostly obscure piece of software and spammers are not currently targeting it, so why bother worrying...
- foxhop 9y agosqlite3 is really easy to backup. You can dump out SQL or just copy the .sqlite files. Scaling it horizontally is where is starts to get tricky.