Ghost Bloggers - Recommendations for comment section?
After setting up my blog on Ghost I've been looking around for alternatives to Disqus. It looks clunky and not my taste per-say.
Do you use any alternatives for hosting a comment section? I've seen https://docs.commento.io/installation/self-hosting/ but I'm wondering what others are out there. Perhaps there are others like me looking for a Ghost integration.
Thank you for any help.
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Do you need a comment section? Honestly. I don't.
you can put email me @.... with your comments and suggestions.
Good point, I can see some clear downsides to it
Telegram made their own comments script which is easy and small in size https://comments.app/ it's what I'm using for https://blog.michaelbrooks.dev there's also commentbox and there's also suggestions from their integrations page https://ghost.org/integrations/community/.
Thanks! I looked into your posts about your blog. How have things been going? I took inspiration that you directly speak to folks wanting to learn PHP. I'm not an expert in what I blog about but I'm hoping that will develop as I write.
You're welcome. It's been slow and steady. I'm currently trying to work out how to get people to sign up while I ready a course on Laravel, but I'm kinda learning as I go with that. Most of what I blog about are things I wanted answers to myself. If I question myself and Google it finding bits and pieces, I like to structure it together into a post so it can help me in the future, and also help those who are searching for similar answers.
I definitely don't consider myself an expert in the field, I just hope that what I write helps others as much as it helps me. If you go through a similar journey, then you'll definitely get there. My advice is to stick with what you're using and doing and try to divert as little as possible unless you well and truly reach a dead end. My personal website has taken many directions and I wish I stuck with one thing and carried on, I think I would be a lot further than I am now.
I remember reading an indie hacker building a Ghost commenting solution, just a few days ago, but I can' easily find reference to it now :(
Maybe you will have better luck that me with searching.
hmm I can't seem to find it either, but good to know that someone here is/was working on it!
Was it me? :)
It was! Hah, just saw you post today and it reminded me of this post that I've now come back to to let @jawmes know :D
For anyone following along on this thread (or finding it in the future), I'm currently building a new "native" commenting system for Ghost blogs. (It's called Evergreen and is in closed alpha right now.)
By “native” I mean that it uses Ghost’s membership feature to allow users to comment, rather than requiring them to log in through an additional service like Google, Disqus, etc.
I’m looking for early adopters who can provide feedback as I continue to add functionality. As an early user, your input will help shape the product and guide its development.
If that sounds interesting, I’d love to onboard you into the alpha to give you access and get your feedback. Please fill out this form, and I’ll reach out.
Let me know if you have any questions!
i killed comments years ago. one less thing to worry about!
It depends on your needs honestly.
If you want good comments for free: Hyvor Talk
You dont care about bloat and privacy? Disqus.
You are serious about comments? Hyvor or Commento
You want to have everything within Ghost and let your members comment natively? Cove
If you ask me, the best starter is Hyvor Talk.
Hey @jawmes!
I just launched Cove publicly yesterday.
It enables comments for Ghost publications using the built-in Members feature, so is as close to "native" comments as you can get.
If you have any questions, let me know here!
-Dan
Hey there, not using Ghost but Eleventy (11ty) so very similar.
I had the same question and eventually just rolled out a custom setup.
I'm hosting on Netlify so using their forms to capture the comments, and then manually adding these into a JSON file so the blog can read them again.
As for automation; I could even use lambda functions to auto do so, but I like to have control about the comments.
Read more on these articles:
https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/comments-system-for-static-website
And this one is the one I took inspiration from:
https://css-tricks.com/jamstack-comments/