Comparing Waline to Gitalk

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

Waline

A simple and cute comment system with backend

Partial free

Overview

Fork of Valine with significant improvements; GDPR-compliant storage options

+ Pros

• Open source
• multiple deployment options
• email notifications
• spam protection
• Markdown support
• reactions
• page views

− Cons

• Moderate setup complexity
• requires Node.js knowledge for self-hosting
• free tier relies on Vercel

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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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