💬 Website Comments

This repository stores comments for my websites, configs and hosts a lightweight Comment Widget Test Bench (index.html) to preview multiple comment systems.

🚀 Supported Comment Systems

1. Giscus (GitHub Discussions)

• Reference: GitHub Repo
• Storage: Uses GitHub Discussions in this repository.
• Features: Supports reactions, nested replies, and rich Markdown formatting. Visitors authenticate via GitHub OAuth.

2. Utterances (GitHub Issues)

• Reference: GitHub Repo
• Storage: Uses GitHub Issues in this repository.
• Features: Lightweight, simple threading, GitHub-flavored Markdown. Visitors authenticate via GitHub OAuth.

3. Waline

• Reference: GitHub Repo
• Storage: Self-hosted (e.g., Vercel + external database).
• Features: Supports anonymous comments, emails, notifications, and Markdown.

4. comments.app (Telegram)

• Reference: comments.app | Telegram Docs
• Storage: Telegram servers.
• Features: Uses Telegram accounts to comment. Supports likes/dislikes and attachments.

💻 Test Bench (index.html)

The index.html file provides a single dashboard to test all four comment systems simultaneously with light/dark theme toggling.

🛠️ How to use

You can edit index.html and replace the public IDs with your own to test your setups:

For Giscus: Update the addScript configuration for giscus-mount:

"data-repo": "SamirPaulb/comments", 
"data-repo-id": "R_kgDOQLe9bw",
"data-category": "comments",
"data-category-id": "DIC_kwDOQLe9b84CxN4R"

For Utterances: Update the addScript configuration for utterances-mount:

"repo": "SamirPaulb/comments"

For Waline: Update the serverURL in the mod.init() block:

serverURL: "https://comment-core.vercel.app"

For Telegram: Update the data-comments-app-website attribute:

"data-comments-app-website": "RplxspNA"

🔒 Privacy & Security

• Giscus & Utterances: Comments are public. Requires a GitHub account. Data follows GitHub's privacy policy.
• Waline: Self-hosted, so data privacy is governed by your own database and host.
• Telegram: Requires a Telegram account. Follows Telegram's privacy policy.

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Questions? Open a Discussion or visit my website.