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societiesio / societies-api

A new way to manage groups and meetings. Server API.
MIT License
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Disqus comments #9

Open paulodiovani opened 7 years ago

paulodiovani commented 7 years ago

...for events

https://disqus.com/

manfromanotherland commented 7 years ago

You might want to rethink using Disqus: http://donw.io/post/github-comments/

I'm not suggesting GitHub instead, but Disqus is getting some bad reputation because of all the tracking + ads it does.

paulodiovani commented 7 years ago

I know Disqus has a big (ok, I dodn't knew it was that huge) overhead. But the intention here is to use something easy to setup that allow virtually, any person to comment (as you can login with several social networks).

Facebook comments is another options but it's only facebook. So I'm open to alternatives.

VincentTam commented 5 years ago

Hi, this is the maintainer of @staticmanlab, a public GitLab instance of Staicman. It might be very late, but here's some shortcomings of some popular commenting systems.

  1. Isso contains a 3rd-party script to be loaded during page rendering. The above code block shows that the static comments are not rendered as static HTML code. This hinders search engines from grabbing the comments, which are part of the site's content.
  2. gitalk, gitment and Utterance support only GitHub, and they require user login before commenting. This can scare away many non programmers from leaving a comment to your posts. Besides, comments are part of the site's static content, not a software package problem. As a result, using GtiHub issues for comment storage is wrong in principle and bad in terms of SEO.

You may avoid these problems by switching to Staticman, which makes use of GitHub/GitLab Pull/Merge Requests instead of issues. Under Staticman's model, static comments are YML/JSON files stored in the remote GitHub/GitLab repo (usually under data/comments, configurable through the path parameter in root-level staticman.yml), and through a static blog generator (Jekyll/Hugo/etc), the stored data are rendered as part of the content. This gives a total ownership of a static site's comments.