Comments on: Jekyll and other static site generators are, currently, harmful to the free, open source software movement

By: Jonathan Brown

Jonathan Brown — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 16:44:50 +0000

You could use openshift free and fire up a juvia app/instance and then use that for commenting…

https://github.com/openshift/juvia-example

By: Dice

Dice — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 18:41:08 +0000

> But the allure of these static site generators is such that they feel like they are the pinnacle of open source hackery goodness.

I try to avoid embedding _any_ external services on a website – even if it was “free” or “open source”.

A week ago I’ve looked through the options for my ex-WP blog, which is now migrated to Jekyll.

For 1-2 hours I compared Disqus to IntenseDebate and the like. Feeling repelled while doing so, I finally found this solution:

http://hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/blog/2011/07/19/static-comments-in-jekyll.html

It’s even utilizing ones existing email spam filter for coping with comments.

So here we have it: The pinnacle of open source hackery goodness

By: svr89

svr89 — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:43:23 +0000

Perhaps late to the game, considering when most of the comments here were made, but there’s a man who has a decent alternative: http://camendesign.com/code/nononsense_forum

It’s not really commenting since everything is done via a forum, but it’s quite clean, indiscriminate and free + open source. Much better than any of the convoluted solution presented so far.

By: Lucas Arruda

Lucas Arruda — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 16:47:18 +0000

What about having no comments at all on your website. The web is still free and we can all trackback, comment on Twitter/Identi.ca, etc.

RMS by the way has all his page without comment and apparently static. I really see no harm on it. It’s just a matter of freedom of choice. Most likely 99% will stick with WordPress.

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By: Faraz Yashar

Faraz Yashar — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 01:34:08 +0000

Here’s a Rails commenting app from ’07: http://code.google.com/p/comment-it/

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:25:26 +0000

One potential option is to limit commenting to people who make pull requests on GitHub.

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By: Haschek

Haschek — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:03:25 +0000

The Ruby guys could use Juvia:

“Juvia is an open source commenting system. It allows you to outsource your commenting needs to an external system so that you don’t have to build your own commenting system for each website or each web app. Embedding a Juvia commenting page only involves pasting a JavaScript snippet into your web page.”

https://github.com/phusion/juvia

It looks very promising and it is very actively developed. I really that there is someone who has enough time porting this to the PHP world

By: Daniel Black

Daniel Black — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:01:16 +0000

It’s apparently tangential but perhaps fundamental to the issue at-hand to inquire: What’s the utility of comments, anyway? We each probably have our opinion on the topic. I generally find them useful for my ego, occasionally interesting or even enlightening, and overall offer either the silo of your WP database or effective 3rd-party ownership of Disqus.

I don’t have a particular issue with Disqus, and have used the service periodically. I currently don’t enable comments, and have considered how I might direct motivated readers to Twitter or email instead. Greg Knauss is trying something similarly minded, but much lighter, with Zezim (http://extramoon.tumblr.com/). I have no idea how far he’s getting with it; it may collapse or already have.