Comparing Valine to Gitalk
Compare Valine with Gitalk for adding forms 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
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