Comparing Valine to Gitalk

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

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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Gitalk

A comment system based on GitHub Issues

Overview

Last updated 2021; similar to Utterances but uses the older Issues API; development stalled

+ Pros

• Open source
• uses GitHub Issues
• Markdown support
• multiple themes
• notifications

− Cons

• Requires GitHub login
• no responses display widget
• only works with GitHub
• older project

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