Comparing Disqus to Valine

Compare Disqus with Valine for adding comments to your static site.

Disqus

Engage your audiences in discussions

Partial free

Overview

Founded 2007; acquired by Zeta Global 2017; not open source; data stored on Disqus servers

+ Pros

• Mature platform
• large community
• social login
• moderation tools
• notifications
• spam filtering

− Cons

• Vendor lock-in
• ads on free plan
• data ownership concerns
• privacy issues
• injected JS slows site
• centralized

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Valine

A fast, simple and efficient comment system without back-end

Overview

LeanCloud free tier is limited; requires configuration; Chinese-developed

+ Pros

• No backend required
• fast
• lightweight
• Markdown support
• emoji support
• visitor count feature

− Cons

• Relies on third-party services (LeanCloud) for storage
• privacy concerns with data stored externally
• development paused

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