Integrate with a commenting engine

[sanand0]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. It's hard to add commenting on a Gramex page.

Describe the solution you'd like Integrate commento

Describe alternatives you've considered I looked at

• isso
• commento
• staticman
• remark42
• discourse

The features we need are:

• Users can add comments
• Users can edit or delete their own comments
• Multiple comment sections allowed per page
• SSO: Integrated with Gramex auth
• Self-hosted
• Flexible UI
  • Embed at the bottom of a page
  • Pop-up against specific components
  • Embed as a sidebar / drawer
  • Customizable CSS
  • OPTIONAL: Customizable display template
• OPTIONAL: Visibility level for comments can be set by developer to Public, Logged-in or role-restricted
• OPTIONAL: Voting / Likes
• OPTIONAL: Threaded comments

Of these, only Commento features SSO. It also has most other features. The two missing features are customizable display template and visibility level for comments.

Additional context

Closing #5 in favor of this issue.

[sanand0]

@jaidevd @bkamapantula -- your thoughts?

[bkamapantula]

I tried to setup staticman for my personal blog this july, it was overly cumbersome and I couldn't complete it. I wouldn't recommend it.

discourse seems to have SSO, it works well as a forum but not sure as a commenting platform. ex: discussion on a blog post is directed to a different page.

commento seems to have the comments option on the page. we can try this out.

[jaidevd]

@sanand0 @bkamapantula Need some time to explore these options more. Traditionally I have been using disqus, but that doesn't meet many features we need.

For now, if discourse can be configured to not redirect to a new page, we should use it.