adtac/commento
Commento
Commento is a self-hosted, privacy-focused commenting system used to embed lightweight discussion sections into websites. It provides a way for visitors to read and post comments while avoiding third-party tracking.
The platform includes specialized utilities for migrating existing discussion history and user data from external commenting platforms. It also integrates identity provider support and single sign-on to verify the identity of users participating in discussions.
Administrative capabilities cover community discussion moderation through spam filters and manual review tools. The system also handles automated email notifications to alert users of new activity or responses within a thread.
Features
- Comment Systems - Provides a complete platform for managing user-generated comments and discussions on websites.
- Reader Interfaces - Offers a lightweight system allowing website visitors to read and post within discussion threads.
- Privacy-Preserving Commenting - Provides a lightweight discussion section that prioritizes user privacy and avoids third-party tracking.
- Self-Hosted Commenting Systems - Provides a privacy-focused, self-hosted platform for embedding discussion sections into websites.
- User Identity Verification - Provides identity verification through single sign-on and external providers to ensure secure interactions.
- Identity Provider Integrations - Integrates with external authentication services to verify the identity of commenters.
- Single Sign-On Integrations - Integrates with trusted third-party identity providers to enable single sign-on authentication.
- Conversation Migrations - Provides utilities to import structured communication history from external platforms to preserve engagement.
- User Comment Moderation - Includes administrative tools for spam detection, thread locking, and manual comment review.
- Content Delivery APIs - Provides a RESTful API for the decoupled frontend to retrieve comments and manage moderation.
- Comment Data Migrations - Enables the migration of historical reader discussions and conversation threads from external systems.
- Relational Database Persistence - Uses a relational database to ensure consistent persistence of threaded discussions and user profiles.
- Community Moderation Middleware - Provides tools and filters for managing reader-submitted content to ensure community safety.
- JWT Session Management - Implements signed JSON Web Tokens for session management to track user identity without server-side storage.
- Moderation Tools - Offers administrative interfaces to manage user conversations via spam filters and moderation tools.
- DOM Script Injection - Uses a lightweight script that is dynamically injected into the host website's DOM to render the interface.
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