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Isso: A Commenting Server Similar to Disqus

by vmorgulis on 2/21/17, 9:14 PM with 67 comments

  • by reitanqild on 2/21/17, 9:55 PM

    SQLite backend

    Because comments are not Big Data.

    Yep, you got it.

    Also MIT licensed.

    Please go ahead and kill Facebook comments.

    I strongly dislike realname policies in this day and time where a single remark can cost you your job.

  • by johnmaguire2013 on 2/21/17, 9:53 PM

    I'm a big fan of Isso, and have been running it on my (not at all notable) blog for a while! I do however wish that the commenter icons were customizable (e.g. Gravatar, Facebook, etc.). There have been Github issues open for it since 2014, but nobody seems willing to put in the effort to implement it. :)

  • by nodesocket on 2/22/17, 12:51 AM

    I've been scouring for a solid replacement for Disqus for my company's blog (https://blog.elasticbyte.net). We are currently using Ghost and Disqus.

    Isso looks nice, especially like the code blocks and backtick support. However, social login is a must have. The ability for anybody to put a name and email is bound to be a spammers delight.

  • by jaimex2 on 2/21/17, 10:44 PM

    Genuine question which I think should be on the site's FAQ:

    Why should I use Isso over Disqus?

  • by jdsin on 2/21/17, 10:46 PM

    I explored this for my static website (hosted on github), Didn't fit my needs exactly. So I started building one in flask and mySQL recently: https://github.com/singhjaideep/flask_comment

  • by cezedccsdezc on 2/21/17, 10:15 PM

    (about alternatives) "Juvia, written in Ruby (on Rails). No threaded comments, nice administration webinterface, but... yeah... Ruby."

    coming from a Python project...

  • by reinhardt1053 on 2/22/17, 9:03 AM

  • by guiomie on 2/22/17, 1:59 AM

    I'd like something similar (either a service like Disqus or self host like Isso) but for reviews.

  • by StavrosK on 2/22/17, 12:13 PM

    I tried to set this up for my site, because Disqus takes two hours to load and I don't like the centralization aspect and all the bloat they're adding. However, I stumbled first thing on the "host" parameter. It doesn't seem to like the subdomain I've set up for serving the comments, and it's obviously not getting served on the top-level domain, so I don't know what it expects.

    The documentation doesn't mention much there, so I'm afraid I'm stuck. Has anyone managed to set this up? I'll open an issue with them to improve the docs.

  • by pfsak on 2/22/17, 12:57 AM

    I use this for my static site. I like the lack of social login and gravatar, personally. Requiring or preferring a web of networks just to leave a comment is getting kind of crazy.

  • by SimeVidas on 2/22/17, 2:36 AM

    What about spam? Disqus has some sort of filter for that, right?

  • by lazyant on 2/22/17, 10:39 PM

    "...most Python developers use the Python Package Index to get their dependencies. ... easy_install is one tool to mess up your system. Another package manager is pip." hmm TIL?

  • by adamante on 2/22/17, 12:36 AM

    My main issue with Disqus is not ideal indexing for SEO. Unfortunately for what I have seen you guys didn't solve that problem :(

  • by kaushalmodi on 2/22/17, 12:27 AM

    So this wouldn't work with a static blog generated by something like Hugo, right?