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All comments now sold?! Somebody/we need to focus on self hosting JS comment system like isso but more user friendly and less paranoia (Gravatar and social medi

All comments now sold?! Somebody/we need to focus on self hosting JS comment system like isso but more user friendly and less paranoia (Gravatar and social media support and email notifications). Still have not seen any good comment system self hosted... the best is maybe Wordpress but even with Jetpack it's not as good as Disqus IMHO. Talk by Mozilla looked promising (but I did not liked the UI design too much) but it requires registering/sign in. Any alternatives?

z3t4 9y ago
Idea: Send comments as e-mail plus save it in cookie, so when the commenter reads the comments he sees his/her comment. Then a moderator or blog owner hooks his CMS or static site generator into the e-mail program/service and he/she can also reply to comments by replying to the e-mail! Or delete the comment by deleting the e-mail. He/she could use a dedicated e-mail box like comments@yourdomain.com. It would even work without JavaScript (form action mailto)! And no server required except a e-mail service.
- Pr3fix 9y ago
  How will commenters submit their comments? Would they be required to enter their email? Or are you implying an email address would be generated for them to associate with their activity/comment chain?
  - z3t4 9y ago
    <form action="mailto:comments@yourdomain.com"> <input type="hidden" name="subject" value="A new comment on the thingy" /> <textarea name="body" rows="10" cols="41"></textarea><br> <button type="submit">Submit comment</button> </form> When the form is submitted the default mail program will be started, subject will be the subject and body will be the body. Now assuming the user does have a e-mail client, all he/she has to do is to click send. You can then read, delete, and reply to comments, and even send private replies, all via your e-mail client. Then you add the comments to your web-site either manually, or have a script do it automatically.
    - kindfellow92 9y ago
      Startup idea: application that automatically syndicates comment threads in your email inbox back to your website.
- leephillips 9y ago
  I've been doing something like this, but cruder (no cookie) on my personal site for some years: https://lee-phillips.org/ https://lee-phillips.org/. I like to be able to decide if a comment is useful for my readers before including it on the page.
KajMagnus 9y ago
I'm developing embedded comments open source & track and add free, demo: (it looks a bit unusual :- )) https://www.kajmagnus.blog/new-embedded-comments/ https://www.kajmagnus.blog/new-embedded-comments/ read more about it & install it: (there's hosting) https://www.effectivediscussions.org/blog-comments https://www.effectivediscussions.org/blog-comments If you like HN, you might like these improvements it has over HN: https://www.effectivediscussions.org/-32/how-hacker-news-can-be-improved-3-things https://www.effectivediscussions.org/-32/how-hacker-news-can... Also see another comment I posted above that lists all (?) alternatives to Disqus: search for "upcoming alternatves" on this page.
- therealmarv 9y ago
  looks great.

z3t4 9y ago

Idea: Send comments as e-mail plus save it in cookie, so when the commenter reads the comments he sees his/her comment. Then a moderator or blog owner hooks his CMS or static site generator into the e-mail program/service and he/she can also reply to comments by replying to the e-mail! Or delete the comment by deleting the e-mail. He/she could use a dedicated e-mail box like comments@yourdomain.com. It would even work without JavaScript (form action mailto)! And no server required except a e-mail service.

Pr3fix 9y ago
How will commenters submit their comments? Would they be required to enter their email? Or are you implying an email address would be generated for them to associate with their activity/comment chain?
- z3t4 9y ago
  <form action="mailto:comments@yourdomain.com"> <input type="hidden" name="subject" value="A new comment on the thingy" /> <textarea name="body" rows="10" cols="41"></textarea><br> <button type="submit">Submit comment</button> </form> When the form is submitted the default mail program will be started, subject will be the subject and body will be the body. Now assuming the user does have a e-mail client, all he/she has to do is to click send. You can then read, delete, and reply to comments, and even send private replies, all via your e-mail client. Then you add the comments to your web-site either manually, or have a script do it automatically.
  - kindfellow92 9y ago
    Startup idea: application that automatically syndicates comment threads in your email inbox back to your website.
leephillips 9y ago
I've been doing something like this, but cruder (no cookie) on my personal site for some years: https://lee-phillips.org/ https://lee-phillips.org/. I like to be able to decide if a comment is useful for my readers before including it on the page.

KajMagnus 9y ago

I'm developing embedded comments open source & track and add free, demo: (it looks a bit unusual :- )) https://www.kajmagnus.blog/new-embedded-comments/ https://www.kajmagnus.blog/new-embedded-comments/ read more about it & install it: (there's hosting) https://www.effectivediscussions.org/blog-comments https://www.effectivediscussions.org/blog-comments If you like HN, you might like these improvements it has over HN: https://www.effectivediscussions.org/-32/how-hacker-news-can-be-improved-3-things https://www.effectivediscussions.org/-32/how-hacker-news-can... Also see another comment I posted above that lists all (?) alternatives to Disqus: search for "upcoming alternatves" on this page.

therealmarv 9y ago
looks great.