I notice from the docs that, as well as Hugo, spf13 are developing a comments system [also written in Go] called Kaiju. Information on Kaiju is pretty sparse [not much more than the github project README] and I can’t find any links to a demo.
Is anyone using Kaiju on their Hugo [or any other] site at the moment and, if so, do you have any thoughts/info on the following:
- Ease of installation/integration with Hugo.
- Stability/usability at current development state.
- Health of the project [Github repo hasn’t been updated in 9 months].
- Link to a site using Kaiju, so I can see how it looks.
Cheers!
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Thought I’d resurrect this old query of mine, as it didn’t get any love when I originally posted it and the issue of wanting to find an alternative [preferably self-hosted, preferably open-source, preferably Golang-based] to Disqus raises its ugly head, every time I fire up my browser’s developer tools console and see how much of a bottle-neck Disqus-integration is having on the loading time of my site. So:
- Whither Kaiju? Is it abandonware?
- Anyone using [or aware of] any self-hosted / open-source /golang-based alternatives?
I’ve had a look at a few options. Most seem either abandoned, or use PHP [Yuck!], or heavyweight JS libraries like JQuery. I’d prefer not to swop the overhead of having Disqus embedded for the overhead of loading some unwieldy framework instead –just to add a few comments.
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Self-hosted Discourse looks fairly interesting, but Ruby on Rails?! [See previous point].
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ISSO looks like a nice lightweight [Python + JS] alternative. But, if I’m interpreting the docs correctly seems wide open to spam.
Any other suggestions?
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