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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I've been using https://utteranc.es/, same concept but using Github issues as comment. This is interesting, especially if there's a way to handle each user's instances.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Just looking at the Utterances site, this sticks out:

No lock-in. All data stored in GitHub issues.

...so you can just migrate those comments somewhere else if you don't want to use Github anymore? If not, I'd call that textbook lock-in.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

For what it's worth: I self-host gitea, and it gives me the possibility to import not only repos but also issues, projects, etc from GitHub, gitlab, bit bucket, and a handful of others.

I don't know if Utterances can work with gitea's API. If it does, then in theory you should be able to migrate to gitea from GitHub for this use case.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I was genuinely wondering if it was that portable. Thanks for the info!