Do you remember I posted recently the list of open source comment engines for your blog? Ok, forget about everything I told you before. Here is the game changer.

Introducing Remark42. It is a self-hosted, lightweight, and simple (yet functional) comment engine, which doesn't spy on users.

Why is that big deal? There is the very popular technical podcast Radio-T and they've used Disqus for a long time. Despite popularity, Disqus has a number of disadvantages, including heavyweight. And podcast host @umputun started to make their own comment engine for podcast needs. Now the code is open sourced and hosted on GitHub (★ 376).

So why Remark42 is worth to be considered for your next blog?
1) authors are very respected people in the tech community and they created blog engine for their own needs, no "dog food selling".
2) import from Disqus
3) smart system for upvoting and downvoting
4) fully dockerized, that makes installation very easy process
5) uses BoltDB as a database, that makes app blazingly fast and resources effective. This is the embedded database, so no external store is needed, all the data is stored in one single file.
and many more...

So please take a look at the demo and join the community, send PR and report issues. Happy blogging!

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