Saw this post the other day and was inspired to make something slightly more stupid, plus it gave me an excuse to work on my website, lol
Cool post – OT but have you ever looked at cactus.chat or alternatives to disqus?
I have been looking for an alternative recently, I was going to publish an article about why I dropped disqus and my search for an alternative but I never saw this. I guess the search term “self-hosted website comments” has all its SEO clogged up with Disqus by now. Will check this out though, thanks!
It’s pretty nice except how abandonwar-y all of Matrix feels. I run cactus here – https://reticulated.net/
It’s kind of annoying that you have to join the matrix room every time you post but still better than Disqus or those weird git repo comment systems
Ah I will look into that, maybe there’s a Matrix library I can implement so that I don’t have to do that manually, lol.
Hi, does your website have an rss feed? Cool post btw.
I do have an RSS feed! It’s https://floridaman7588.me/feed.xml I should probably put it in a more obvious place on my site tho, haha. And thanks for reading!
Thank you, I should have tried that. (I tried /feed - without the .xml). I’m also pretty sure there’s some html meta tag pointing at the feed. I use Feeder on android and it can usually find the feed, even if it has some nonstandard path. EDIT: This is how it looks like in the linked The Thin Computer article linked:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="The Thin Computer » Feed" href="https://thin.computer/index.php/feed/" /> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="The Thin Computer » Comments Feed" href="https://thin.computer/index.php/comments/feed/" /> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="The Thin Computer » Using Termux on Android for Self Hosting? Yes, really. Comments Feed" href="https://thin.computer/index.php/2024/03/21/using-termux-on-android-for-self-hosting-yes-really/feed/" />
Ah, I will look into adding that to my React layouts. Thanks for the suggestion!
very cool post
Thanks for the read!