[ckan-dev] Commenting alternatives to Disqus?

[Adrià Mercader]

The python commenting library I mentioned was http://posativ.org/isso/

I think it would be really straight forward to integrate with CKAN on
a extension, keeping the comments on your server.
I'm not sure how or if it would be possible to integrate with CKAN users though.

Adrià

On 17 April 2014 12:04, Ross Jones <ross at servercode.co.uk> wrote:
> 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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