A lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues. Use GitHub issues for blog comments, wiki pages and more!
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utterances vs Disqus Comments
- utterances is Free and Open Source
Disqus Alternatives
Disqus is described as 'Offers the best add-on tools for site owners to power discussions, increase engagement, and earn revenue' and is a popular comment platform in the social & communications category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Disqus for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Self-Hosted, SaaS, Wordpress and Linux apps. The best Disqus alternative is Isso, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Disqus are Commento, Hyvor Talk, giscus and ReplyBox.
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Viafoura partners with over 600 media brands to engage, convert and monetize their digital audiences. With best-in-class engagement and content moderation solutions — including real-time conversations, live blogs, community chat, personalization tools and AI-powered moderation —...
Real-time audience engagement platform - moderated live Q&A, live blogs, polls and match centers embedded on your own website.
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HashOver is a PHP comment system intended as a replacement for services like Disqus. HashOver is free and open source software, under the GNU Affero General Public License. HashOver adds a "comment section" to any website, by placing a few simple lines of JavaScript or...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
DiscontinuedNo updates since Aug 2019 & won't work with the latest PHP versions.
HashOver vs Disqus Comments
tuva-hayabiThe latest code of Hashover Next (2.0) works under PHP 8.2. Latest updates from November 2022. I’m not sure if the development has stopped since then or not.
- HashOver is Free and Open Source
GraphComment replaces native WordPress comments with a faster, privacy-first system. Spam is blocked at the source (the native comment endpoint is closed to bots), AI-assisted moderation is included on every plan, and every comment syncs back into your own WordPress database —...
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
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Platforms
- Wordpress
- Online
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
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LiveRe is an alternative to Disqus based in South Korea and used by LG, Samsung, Nike, Kia, Hyundai, ... Like Disqus you it allow social log-in. It allow comment with attachment such as image & video.
13 Remark42 alternativesRemark42 is a self-hosted, lightweight, and simple (yet functional) comment engine, which doesn't spy on users. It can be embedded into blogs, articles or any other place where readers add comments.
Livefyre was an embeddable real-time commenting platform that turned comments on any site into live conversations, increased the quality of those conversations, and drove traffic to content around the web.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Online
Cactus Comments is a federated comment system for the web, based on the Matrix protocol. The system is easily embedded, respects you and your users privacy and is completely free and open source.
Cactus Comments vs Disqus Comments
tuva-hayabiYou need to run your own Matrix homeserver.
- Cactus Comments is Free and Open Source
- Cactus Comments is Privacy focused
Comments Box is a social plugin that enables user commenting on your site. Features include moderation tools and distribution.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Online
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Israel
Probably better but only if you want your site to use GitHub issues as a way of storing comments. Beneficial for Jekyll / GitHub Pages websites, though.