Remark42

Remark42 is a self-hosted, lightweight and simple (yet functional) comment engine, which doesn't spy on users. It can be embedded into blogs, articles, or any other place where readers add comments.

• Social login via Google, Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Yandex, Patreon and Telegram
• Login via email
• Optional anonymous access
• Multi-level nested comments with both tree and plain presentations
• Import from Disqus and WordPress
• Markdown support with friendly formatter toolbar
• Moderator can remove comments and block users
• Voting, pinning and verification system
• Sortable comments
• Images upload with drag-and-drop
• Extractor for recent comments, cross-post
• RSS for all comments and each post
• Telegram, Slack, Webhook and email notifications for Admins (get notified for each new comment)
• Email and Telegram notifications for users (get notified when someone responds to your comment)
• Export data to JSON with automatic backups
• No external databases, everything embedded in a single data file
• Fully dockerized and can be deployed in a single command
• Self-contained executable can be deployed directly to Linux, Windows and macOS
• Clean, lightweight and customizable UI with white and dark themes
• Multi-site mode from a single instance
• Integration with automatic SSL (direct and via nginx-le)
• Privacy focused

Demo site available with all authentication methods, including email auth and anonymous access.

All remark42 documentation is available by the link.

Related projects

• A Helm chart for Remark42 on Kubernetes
• django-remark42