Scott Laird<p>I'm looking for a new comment system for my <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Hugo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hugo</span></a> blog, and I'm not seeing any clearly great options.</p><p>I've been using <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Commento" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Commento</span></a> for <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/comments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>comments</span></a> on my blog for a few years now, and it's about time to switch comment systems.</p><p>Commento has been effectively unmaintained for 4 years (see <a href="https://gitlab.com/commento/commento" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">gitlab.com/commento/commento</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>). Their (paid) hosted version has been continuing to work, but I've seen increasing numbers of errors lately, so it's time to move.</p><p>I'd really *love* something that could integrate semi-natively with <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/activitypub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activitypub</span></a> so new blog posts could show up in Mastodon and Mastodon replies would show up as comments, *but* I don't want to require a fediverse account for commenters; that rules out most (all?) of the embedded-Mastodon comment options.. After looking through Hugo's somewhat-outdated list of commenting options (<a href="https://gohugo.io/content-management/comments/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gohugo.io/content-management/c</span><span class="invisible">omments/</span></a>), it looks like <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Discourse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discourse</span></a> is the only option that even *slightly* fits that, and it's a lot heavier-weight than I really want to run today. Hours-of-maintenance-per-comment should be less than 1, thanks.</p><p>Basic requirements:</p><p>- Either easy to self-host or has a cheap hosted option.<br>- Allows anonymous comments plus common external auth options.<br>- Possible to import comments from Commento, possibly requiring code on my part, but it needs to allow arbitrary names, etc.<br>- Works with static sites.<br>- Not a privacy disaster<br>- If self-hosted, ideally written in something sane -- Go, Rust, etc. *Ideally* it's a single binary that listens to HTTP and stores comments in Postgres.<br>- Supports Markdown.</p><p>Does anyone have anything that they're really happy with?</p>