Comparing Talk to Gitalk
Compare Talk with Gitalk for adding comments to your static site.
- Open source
- real-time comments
- moderation
- email notifications
- no third-party dependency
- Small community
- less polished than commercial options
- no commercial hosting
- limited documentation
- Open source
- uses GitHub Issues
- Markdown support
- multiple themes
- notifications
- Requires GitHub login
- no responses display widget
- only works with GitHub
- older project
Talk
A Node.js-based commenting system for static sites
Overview
Based on Cactus Comments; requires self-hosting
+ Pros
− Cons
Gitalk
A comment system based on GitHub Issues
Overview
Last updated 2021; similar to Utterances but uses the older Issues API; development stalled