Disqus alternative for static sites and blogs: threaded comments on one Worker with D1, KV and Turnstile
- Deploy
- CLI
- License
- Apache-2.0
- GitHub stars
- 43 stars
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Self-hosted alternatives to FastComments
FastComments is a hosted commenting service with live conversations, moderation, spam protection and single sign-on. One listed app does its main job and runs in your own Cloudflare account.
Each answer comes from the app’s README and source code, compared with the features FastComments describes on its own site.
FastComments features, app by app
| Feature | Garrul |
|---|---|
| Live conversations in real time | No |
| Moderation queue with bulk actions and moderator groups | Partly |
| Spam protection from a continuously trained classifier | Partly |
| Single sign-on with existing user accounts | No |
| Fine-grained, scheduled or immediate notifications | Yes |
| Import from Disqus and WordPress | Partly |
| Adaptive theming and custom styling | Yes |
| Mentions, reactions, ratings and subscriptions | Partly |
Disqus alternative for static sites and blogs: threaded comments on one Worker with D1, KV and Turnstile
- What a FastComments user would miss
- Live updating, single sign-on, mentions and ratings, and Garrul serves one site per Worker.
- What it adds
- Apache-2.0, keeps comments and users in your own D1 database, and states it has no analytics, tracking pixels or advertising.
- No Live conversations in real time. No live updating of the thread found; comments load when the widget mounts.
- Partly Moderation queue with bulk actions and moderator groups. Moderation queue with approve, spam and delete actions and user management; bulk actions and moderator groups are not described.
- Partly Spam protection from a continuously trained classifier. Turnstile, rate limiting, honeypot, four tunable heuristics and an optional Akismet or Workers AI classifier; not a trained classifier of its own.
- No Single sign-on with existing user accounts. No sign-in with the host site's own accounts found.
- Yes Fine-grained, scheduled or immediate notifications. Reply notification emails with a debounced digest, moderator digests, and webhooks to Slack, Discord or Telegram.
- Partly Import from Disqus and WordPress. Disqus and four other exports import in the admin; no WordPress comment import found.
- Yes Adaptive theming and custom styling. CSS custom properties, dark mode and a visual theme builder, with an iframe option.
- Partly Mentions, reactions, ratings and subscriptions. Reactions and reply subscriptions; no mentions or ratings found.
Sources:github.com/kingpin/garrul#readmegarrul.comfastcomments.com/