Selfhosted @lemmy.world inspxtr @lemmy.world 1 yr. ago

Comment systems for static pages (Jekyll)?

I'm very new to self host, so apologies if I say things wrong.

Anyway, I'm looking for comment systems that I can deploy to fly.io (or similar systems but not Heroku) for my static pages (Jekyll) that comes with Codeberg/Sourcehut pages. I found staticman but it assumes Github/Gitlab.

Thanks!

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The folks at Jekyll seem to recommend Talkyard:

https://jekyllrb.com/resources/

I'm not super familiar with this as I was just looking into it myself from your post but figured I'd highlight that for ya.

Edit: seems their link is broken so here's a working one:

https://blog-comments.talkyard.io/
- thanks, and that’s great that this can be used for other static pages as well.
  
  stupid general question: in the “install it yourself” guide, they say that this needs to be run on a VPS, for example with DigitalOcean. I’m thinking of deploying on fly.io, which I understand is like an alternative for Heroku. Is there a conceptual difference between these types of solutions (DigitalOcean vs fly.io for example) that might affect hosting?
- That talkyard seems cool
  
  Is it difficult to run?
If you want a truly privacy respecting option (because self hosting), I’ve been using https://cactus.chat which is great. I specifically use it on my streaming setup as it’s real time as well to boot.
Commento looked interesting the last time I was searching for an option.

Or since you’re on the fediverse already, there’s webmentions.
- Cool, thanks for the suggestions!
  
  Never heard of webmentions but I've heard some people have integrated mastodon their Jekyll pages, I wonder if that's the same thing.
  
  I read about mastodon comments previously, I think it was this article https://carlschwan.eu/2020/12/29/adding-comments-to-your-static-blog-with-mastodon/
- I was remembering it was abandoned? Someone forked it as commento++
Currently using https://utteranc.es/ for my blog. Though I’m not sure in the privacy side. It uses github issues as the backend.
- that looks cool! Do commenters need a github account to do that though?
  
  They do. I can see that it’s a deal breaker for some, but IMO github acc is better than disqus. IDK, maybe there are better options listed by others here.
  
  My requirements were I don’t want to deal with user accounts and spam, and not disqus (I’ve blocked it with pihole).
Disqus could be integrated but I am not completely sure.
- I've heard that it's not very privacy respecting, is it right?
  
  I am not sure what could be the problem? People will comment if they want.
I use hypothes.is
I considered for my blog to run nodebb with the blog comments plugin

What do you think?

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