Howdy. After being disappointed with current comment systems for static websites I decided to develop very lightweight open source comment system for static websites. Today I am really happy to announce first pre-alpha version, so, without further ado, here it is: Kommentator Kommentator is open source, lightweight, dependency-free comments system for websites. Main focus are static websites or blogs, but it can be used on any website. Goals of this project: provide a hassle-free way to enable commenting on your blog/website so you can carry on with your life and blogging.

Following up on previous previous post I am collecting here a requirements for good comment system for static websites, mainly blogs: Non-functional requirements Simple installation. This is one of the main requirements, you can furthe split it by: Number of server components needed to run. Less is better. Integration into static website Things like domains, SSL, reverse-proxy, etc. Performance. One of the reason for popularity of static website generators is that they provide really high preformance, comment system should also be performant, which can be split in two factors: Size JavaScript components Latency in receiving comment list from server Complexity of HTML layout Easy administration.

Current state of blogging After installing Hugo on this blog I came to the problem of enabling comments. In case you are not aware, Hugo is a static website generator. You write each post as a Markdown file and then run hugo “build” process to generate static HTML. “What?” I hear you ask. “Static HTML?” I see your lips saying while your eyes increase in size twofold. I have to agree that I also can feel the smell of 90’s when I hear about static HTML.