Commento
Web and SaaS
commenting system
SHOW HN2017
How HN took it
5 positive, 17 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 8 critical, out of 30 comments about the project. Thread score -0.14.
Idea: 4 for, 3 againstPerformance: 1 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Fast loading demo
From 1 comment
Nice, that demo loaded pretty fast even with a lot of comments :)
gizzlon on HN
Clean, nice-looking design
From 1 comment
This looks really nice and clean. I'd been using Juvia a lot over the year's, built by the people at Phusion. It's worked really well, but seems to be unmaintained now. The…
JangoSteve on HN
Objections
Self-hosting install is too much friction
From 1 comment
You should have put up a demo site where users can try out the comment engine. Requiring the installation on a user's laptop/desktop is just too much friction, not to mention…
metalmanac on HN
No spam protection or captcha yet
From 2 comments
Does it include a CAPTCHA? Comment sections seem very susceptible to spam from experience.
lol768 on HNHow do you prevent comments flood ? Imagine someone write a script calling your server with valid headers, what will happens ? Serious question I asked myself a month ago on a…
Xoros on HN
Hosting backend needed for static sites
From 1 comment
Half the value of Disqus is that it hosts the server API for you. Any viable alternative to disqus or other commenting engine needs to provide hosting too. Otherwise, it's not…
mzzter on HN
Requests
Add captcha or spam filtering
From 2 comments
Does it include a CAPTCHA? Comment sections seem very susceptible to spam from experience.
lol768 on HNThis looks really nice and clean. I'd been using Juvia a lot over the year's, built by the people at Phusion. It's worked really well, but seems to be unmaintained now. The…
JangoSteve on HN
Import existing Disqus comments
From 1 comment
What's the best way to import existing comment data from Disqus into Commento?
timbowhite on HN
Locally hosted JavaScript instead of rawgit
From 1 comment
Please use a locally hosted js in your example code. rawgit does not even have a privacy policy.
aw3c2 on HN
Questions
How does it handle concurrent writes with SQLite?
From 1 comment
Nice, but how it deals with multiple concurrent writes? I see you are using transactions but, as far as I know, sqlite3 supports database-level locking, so one writing instance,…
_cereal on HN
How is comment flooding prevented?
From 1 comment
How do you prevent comments flood ? Imagine someone write a script calling your server with valid headers, what will happens ? Serious question I asked myself a month ago on a…
Xoros on HN
Alternatives named
Isso
From 1 comment
Related discussion: Replacing Disqus with GitHub Comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14170041 Recommended alternatives to Commento (Golang): ·…
j_s on HN
Staticman
From 2 comments
Related discussion: Replacing Disqus with GitHub Comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14170041 Recommended alternatives to Commento (Golang): ·…
j_s on HNhttps://staticman.net/
pomfpomfpomf3 on HN
lambda-comments
From 2 comments
Related discussion: Replacing Disqus with GitHub Comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14170041 Recommended alternatives to Commento (Golang): ·…
j_s on HNI'd been thinking about doing something like this with AWS API Gateway, Lambda and DynamoDB. Chalice (https://github.com/awslabs/chalice) should make it relatively simple to make…
brango on HN
Remarkbox
From 1 comment
I'm bootstrapping an alternative to Disqus called Remarkbox (https://www.remarkbox.com) Are you planning on also offering a paid hosted version?
foxhop on HN
Juvia
From 1 comment
This looks really nice and clean. I'd been using Juvia a lot over the year's, built by the people at Phusion. It's worked really well, but seems to be unmaintained now. The…
JangoSteve on HN