What is the crowd's opinion of Isso?

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I hope so. Since they use disqus who are, presumably, data-mining the hell out of their users, they should be getting paid, not paying, for this "service".

Shout-out to isso, free and open-source self-hosted comment system.

this is like Isso but more resource efficent(?)

Can i use it on a subaddress(e.g. blog.domain.com/comments)?

Btw, a docker image based on something light would be better (alpine or scratch).

For hosted solutions, https://posativ.org/isso/ exists, is open source, and works pretty well. A tracking-free hosted solution would be nice though since I don't want to manage the servers. Isso-as-a-service, if that makes sense?

You could host comments via https://posativ.org/isso/. But if you need a server anyway you could also just use a real blogging engine. Doesn't have to be wordpress - but something with comments, trackbacks and pingbacks should be the basics to have a chance.

Though there is the while indieweb thing with their trackback fork, they do have services where you can embed those in static sites.

Anyway, you mentioned wanting to learn more about web development, you will actually learn more if you extend an existing system. Writing plugins for Serendipity (a PHP blog engine) did help me to get started. Hosts like Hetzner, vultr, linode would be good places to host a blog.

You might know all this of course, hard to judge from the outside.

Oh, that's perfect! Thanks :)

I guess Jekyll it is, then! I'll try fiddling around with some of these SSGs, until I find something I feel comfortable with. I also know of Isso (https://posativ.org/isso/), which should be a self-hosted Disqus replacement, so being able to implement it would be a cherry on the cake.

Another quick question - I've been working on my CSS & general styling without any generator as of now, and redoing it from scratch would be kind of a PITA. Do you have any experience on migration, and do you know if it's a complex or relatively simple process? Thanks again!

So for Disqus I’ve done the following:

• Disabled ads
• Disabled tracking

Luckily it’s free being an OSS project to make those changes 🙂

So you shouldn’t have to worry. Please keep an eye though and make sure they’re not breaking any laws!

Edit: I'm going to move away from Disqus to Isso

Well the design definitely needs improvement, you can make it look exactly like or similar to isso: https://posativ.org/isso/ cuz isso is licensed under MIT so there is no issue there.

In terms of functionality I think it would be nice to have upvote/downvote like isso and Disqus. Also, having the ability to enter an e-mail address and a website when posting would be nice too.

What do you think?

I think its time to replace Disqus. Maybe something more independent.

Only as a suggestion, Isso is on top my head. Isso - a community server similar to Disqus

Disclaimer - I am in no way related to this project.