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When Commento's original maintainer went quiet, Commento++ bundled the community's bug fixes and stalled merge requests into a batteries-included release of the beloved Go-based Disqus alternative - and kept building. The core promise is unchanged: an embeddable comments box that is orders of magnitude lighter and faster than Disqus, with no ads, tracking, or data sales - two lines of HTML and a PostgreSQL database. On top of Markdown comments, voting, Disqus import, OAuth login (Google, GitHub, Twitter) plus SSO, sticky comments, thread locking, and email notifications, the fork's additions are substantial: WebSocket-powered live comment updates with permalinks and highlight animations for new arrivals, guest commenting with a name, a cross-domain moderation dashboard for approving and deleting comments in one place, MathJax rendering support, wildcard domain matching, a reInit hook that makes single-page-application integration clean, and Perspective API spam scoring alongside the existing Akismet integration. Optional page-view logging graphs traffic on the dashboard, native SSL termination works without a proxy, and script-tag data attributes control fonts, CSS overrides, deleted-comment visibility, and polling-versus-WebSocket behavior.

Comments for small sites without Disqus's baggage: Cusdis is a lightweight, privacy-first, open-source comment system for embedding under blog posts and articles. The embedded JavaScript SDK is about 5 KB gzipped (Disqus is roughly 24 KB), sets no cookies, runs no tracking, and does not require readers to create an account or sign in before commenting. Integration is two lines: a container div with your app ID and an async script tag, with ready-made adapters for common frameworks and static site generators. Moderation is approval-based - new comments stay hidden until you approve them from the dashboard, and email notifications include a Quick Approve link that approves or replies to a comment from your phone without logging in. A webhook fires on every new comment for integrations like Telegram notifications. The widget ships with built-in i18n and dark mode. The stack is TypeScript and Next.js with a Prisma data layer, deployable via Docker with PostgreSQL. Deliberately minimalist: no ads, no reader profiling, and your comment data lives in your own database.