Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aenean commodo ligula eget dolor. Aenean massa.
Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.
Donec quam felis, ultricies nec, pellentesque eu, pretium quis, sem. Nulla consequat massa quis enim.
Donec pede justo, fringilla vel, aliquet nec, vulputate eget, arcu. In enim justo, rhoncus ut, imperdiet a, venenatis vitae, justo.
Nullam dictum felis eu pede mollis pretium. Integer tincidunt. Cras dapibus. Vivamus elementum semper nisi.
Aenean vulputate eleifend tellus. Aenean leo ligula, porttitor eu, consequat vitae, eleifend ac, enim.
Aliquam lorem ante, dapibus in, viverra quis, feugiat a, tellus. Phasellus viverra nulla ut metus varius lao
Hey, I'm looking for easy to use comments system. Your looks nice.
Clicking 'setup' on the development box just throws me back to the top of the page. That html snippet isn't copyable and there doesn't seem to be any instructions on what is needed for the setup. Supposedly joining or that beta request may be needed, but that isn't exactly spelled out here.
So I'll just test the comment box. Maybe I'll look again some day.
Hi. Do you plan ever allowing multiple languages or the ability to edit the default texts?
Markdown support
Well, that's cool, for those who know how to use it, but for the majority of internet users a case of "What is markdown?".
But anything that gets away from proprietary systems like disqus and facebook comments has got to be worth a shot.
Time for some more testing me thinks!
This seems really good except I'd want users to enter a username easily (i.e. without registering). I know it opens up a bunch of problems with impersonation and whatnot, but usernames like 3SYh52D are just too impersonal to encourage any community
I thing the user experience is odd here. Move the mail textbox to top, and wrap the whole thing, the textarea, the preview and the submit button in a box or a light gray backroung so that user can know that these three are one group.
Also have bading for each thing and move the logo to top left, before the comment textarea. Make button text submit comment or just comment instead of submit.
Hi Russell, Do you plan to implement private messaging between users sometime in the future? Cheers
On a side note, I noticed that the verification mail got right into my spam folder on hotmail. That doesn't happen on most services I use. Is it possible to disable the mail verification process?
At this point email verification is "sort of" optional. A user who does not verify their email will be anonymous. That said, I have a ticket in my back log to work on determining why email providers are marking the verification links as spam. I might even go as far as using an external bulk mailing relay service with a good reputation.
How do you deal with garbage comments like this? ;)
Just kidding, but I think getting rid of comment systems is often the simplest approach.
I think for parts of the web which bring out the worst trolls and spammers, maybe you are correct about removing comments altogether. That said, there are still many uses for comment systems and forums.
Its not an easy problem to solve, likely there isn't a perfect solution. I'm aiming to build a system that a joy to use, makes it hard on spammers and easy on readers and "moderators".
I believe in the open web and I want to allow my readers to reach out to me. I'm not ready to throw out the baby with the bath water. The more we remove discussions from the open web, the more power the big players like Facebook, Google, and Twitter have on controlling the dialog.
Apparently you can enter an invalid e-mail address (without an @). But there seems to be a bug in the rendering of the response page.
I have to say, this service looks promising. But I suggest to have a free tier for low-volume webpages. For instance I am thinking about starting a blog but because everything is new it will take some time until I have regular visitors. Spending 5$/mo and getting virtually no comments doesn't feel right. In principle I would totally be cool with spending money because I value my future readers and not having ads is a big benefit. But then I would be sad if there were no comments because my site is not well known enough.
So keep up the good work! And keep things simple, because that's also a really good thing.
So how does this compare to Disqus? I'm using Pelican and this project looks very promising.
I use Pelican for many of my static websites as well. : )
Disqus makes money through advertisement. Remarkbox will likely cost $5/mo but I'm not really clear on the value to price at this point.
I want Remarkbox to be a suitable
- as a question and answer site
- as an embedded comment system
- as a forum (fresh look at an old idea)
Some early design goals and decisions:
- become very popular
- safe from spam but east to clean up spam if it happens
- passwordless. Registration, verification and authentication happen via one-time-password links sent via email.
- horizontal scaling
- have low friction for new users to join into the conversation (posters and commenters)
- no captchas
- engaging for users (posters and commenters)
- search engine optimized
- great test coverage
Hope you succeed? Out of curiosity will you offer moderation and/or flagging capabilities?
Flagging is an important feature which I want to make accessible to any reader. I have not built this functionality yet, but it is on my list of things to code.
As for moderation, I plan to have an "admin" section for moderators.
Moderators will be able to:
- move /reorder a comment (change where they are nested)
- verify any comment on "domain"
- disable any comment on "domain"
- freeze / hide comments (disable comments from appearing on a particular page)
Users will be able to:
- move / reorder their comment
- verify their comment
- disable their comment
- edit their comment (not sure if I want to archive history)
- flag comment
Remarkbox