Self-hosted commenting system
Commenting system designed to work in conjunction with static site generators.
Documentation: https://nicoco.srht.site/own-comments/
Issue tracker: https://todo.sr.ht/~nicoco/own-comments
Work in progress, some force pushes may occur before the real initial commit.
- Minimalist
- Cookie-less: editable comments using an update key stored in the browser localstorage
- Submitting a comment is possible without javascript
- Optional customizable frontend using an HTML template element*
- Email notifications (for the site owner)
[*] the REST api is pretty straightforward to use if you want to roll your own fronted
The backend is written using fastapi,
typed-checked with mypy and tested with pytest.
The openapi schema produced is used in the frontend, written in typescript,
using openapi-typescript-fetch as the only
dependency.
It powers the comments of my personal blog.
By the time you read this, maybe someone will have posted a comment on a blog entry, who knows?
``bash``
podman run -p 8000:80 docker.io/nicocool84/own-comments:latest
Visit http://localhost:8000/static/index.html or http://localhost:8000/docs to see what it looks
like.
This blog post lists quite a few alternatives.
Own-comments was heavily inspired by caint.