- cross-posted to:
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- cross-posted to:
- [email protected]
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 :)
Do you address spam in any way?
Like promotional emails? Not at all.
I’ve added features that allow admins to prevent their instances being used for spam. These are explained in the abuse mitigation section of the docs.
Rate limits can be set for authentication emails to minimise spam. The only other type of emails sent to users are reply notifications (when someone else replies to their comments). This is enabled for each user by default (if admin has enabled this feature on a per-location basis and globally), and can be disabled by users on the main panel.