[ckan-dev] Commenting alternatives to Disqus?

Thu Apr 17 11:04:25 UTC 2014

Hi David,

I started a commenting module at https://github.com/rossjones/ckanext-comments but it is still quite a long way from production ready, and I wouldn’t recommend trying it yet.

Adria also pointed me to a commenting framework for Python a while back whose name has unfortunately slipped my mind - perhaps he’ll recall it as it had a disqus style API and might be a better approach for commenting in CKAN given that it has its own development community.

Ross

On 17 Apr 2014, at 11:53, David Megginson <david.megginson at megginson.com> wrote:

> Has anyone developed a robust commenting extension that keeps comments in CKAN rather than going out to an external service like Disqus?  
> 
> Using Disqus for CKAN has several serious flaws:
> For public pages, the comments are loaded from the Disqus server and generated dynamically via JavaScript — that means that they won't be indexed with the page by Google (etc.), so a huge amount of valuable search-engine context is lost.
> 
> For private pages (e.g. org-specific datasets), the comments (which may contain confidential information) are being stored on a third-party server, and to make it worse, on a server located in the US (where the contents are subject to arbitrary secret surveillance laws).
> 
> Users of the CKAN site are forced to create Disqus accounts to comment non-anonymously, and to have their activities tracked by Disqus across different sites.
> If there's no production-ready extension, I'd also be interested in hearing about work in progress.  I do know that some governments have integrated CKAN with a Drupal commenting system, but running Drupal just for comments is a bit of a heavy-handed solution.
> 
> 
> Thanks, and all the best,
> 
> 
> David
> 
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