Confab – beautiful comments for your site (confabcomments.com)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by insert_newline@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Confab Comments is a drop-in commenting solution for small scale sites such as blogs.

I made a post about 5 months ago showcasing this project, and by far the most requested feature was anonymous commenting. I'm happy to say I recently completed implementing this, and you can try out a demo on the website.

Features

Anonymous commenting + passwordless user authentication via email
Full markdown support
Comment edits (with edit history)
Admin moderation features, including a manual moderation queue, basic auto moderation, mass deletion and banning
Comment reply notifications and admin notifications via email

If you'd like to quickly spin up an instance yourself, Docker and bare metal instructions are provided in the quick start guide; you should additionally be able to find fairly comprehensive documentation here.

If you like what you see, feel free to leave me a star on GitHub :)

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[-] x00z@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Looks pretty decent, some feedback:

I tried clicking the "Join the conversation!" box to try and write a comment. Took me way to long to understand I had to click the button.
Text editor is fine for me, but the bottom glow (background gradient) in it feels off.

I like that I can selfhost it. Almost all of these services collect and sell user data (like Disqus) and they are straight up blocked by ad/tracker blockers.

[-] insert_newline@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Thanks for taking the time to check it out, I will look into what I can do to improve those issues. It's basically impossible to get usability insights like this when you're the only person working on something, so this is much appreciated, thank you!