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gouthambs / Flask-Blogging

A Markdown Based Python Blog Engine as a Flask Extension.
http://flask-blogging.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
MIT License
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As of Mar 2017 Disqus forces advertising #116

Closed mhsquire closed 5 years ago

mhsquire commented 6 years ago

An alternative comment system should be supported seeing as Disqus has removed the ability to disable advertising on Blogs created with Flask-Blogging. This means that sites cannot support themselves with ads. This threatens the future adoption of Flask-blogging by many people that do not want to pay the monthly fee that they charge for an ad-free experience. The adoption of Flask-blogging should be based on the great features that are provided not the content of Disqus's ads which are often terrible fake news and snake oil sales, seriously.

A preliminary solution is to allow the disabling of Disqus. Then add an alternative such as the one that I briefly researched: https://posativ.org/isso/ (ISSO). Next, create some sort of plugin system to make the project less vulnerable to this click-bait and switch attack in the future.

gouthambs commented 6 years ago

@cipherkit Thanks for researching on this. I would be open to incorporating ISSO or other comment system into Flask-Blogging. If you want to take a stab at it, happy to help.

pbrackin commented 5 years ago

Just wanted to say I was considering the use of flask-blogging until I found out it only supports Disqus for comments. @cipherkit 's suggestion should be given some weight. I like your project though. Self-hosted non-PHP blogging solutions are sorely needed. I'm sure you could use some help, too. I will check back on your project if I get some BW to make a contribution here.