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Isso Ich schrei sonst
=======================
You love static blog generators (especially [Acrylamid][1] *cough*) and the
only option to interact with the community is [Disqus][2]. There's nothing
wrong with it, but if you care about the privacy of your audience you are
better off with a comment system that is under your control. This is, were
Isso comes into play.
[1]: https://github.com/posativ/acrylamid
[2]: https://disqus.com/
**[Screenshot @2013-09-13](http://posativ.org/~tmp/isso-preview.png)** |
**[Screenshot @2013-10-03](http://rw.posativ.org/n1v/o)** |
**[Try Yourself!](http://posativ.org/isso/static/post.html)** (in case it's not crashed ;-)
Isso is not stable (pretty far from that state) and the database format may
change without any backwards compatibility. Just saying.
Features
--------
* [CRUD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Create,_read,_update_and_delete) comments
* SQLite backend
* client-side JS (currently 60kb minified (20.5 gzipped))
* I18N, available in german and english (also fallback)
Roadmap
-------
- Ping/TrackBack™ support
- simple admin interface
- spam filtering
Installation
------------
Requirements:
- Python 2.6 or 2.7
- [NPM](https://npmjs.org/) and [Bower](http://bower.io/)
For now (as long as there is no stable version), you need to manually
build everything:
~> git clone https://github.com/posativ/isso.git
~> cd isso/
~> python setup.py develop
To fetch the requires JS components (and CSS framework), run:
~> cd isso/js/
~> bower install almond q requirejs requirejs-domready requirejs-text
You can now either use the JS client as-is (using [require.js][r.js], see
below) or compile all JS into a single file:
~> cd isso/js
~> npm install -g requirejs uglifyjs
~> r.js -o build.embed.js
~> r.js -o build.count.js
Before you start, you may want to import comments from
[Disqus.com](https://disqus.com/):
~> isso import ~/Downloads/user-2013-09-02T11_39_22.971478-all.xml
[100%] 53 threads, 192 comments
You start the server via (try to visit [http://localhost:8080/static/post.html]()).
~> isso run
Webserver Configuration
-----------------------
This part is not fun, I know. I have prepared two possible setups for nginx,
using Isso on the same domain as the blog, and on a different domain. Each
setup has its own benefits.
### Isso on a Sub URI
Let's assume you want Isso on `/isso`, use the following nginx snippet
```nginx
server {
listen [::]:80;
listen [::]:443 ssl;
server_name example.tld;
root /var/www/example.tld;
location /isso {
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Script-Name /isso;
proxy_pass http://localhost:8080;
}
}
```
The Isso API endpoint is now `example.tld/isso`, check by `curl`ing the client
JS located at `http://example.tld/isso/js/embed.js`.
### Isso on a Dedicated Domain
...
Website Integration
-------------------
Add the following two lines into your HTML header:
```html
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://example.tld/isso/static/isso.css" />
<script src="http://example.tld/isso/embed.min.js"></script>
```
To enable comments, add a `<div id="#isso-thread"></div>` below your post and
let the magic happen :-)
To add comment count links to your index page, include `count.min.js` at the
very bottom of your document. All links followed by `#isso-thread`, are
updated with the current comment count.
This functionality is already included when you embed `embed.min.js`, do
*not* mix `embed.min.js` and `count.min.js` in a single document.
### Embed with require.js
This section is primarily for developers: The client-side JS is modularized
and uses an AMD loader for execution. You can easily hack on the JS files,
when using [require.js][r.js]:
```html
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/isso.css" />
<script src="/js/config.js"></script>
<script data-main="/js/embed" src="/isso/js/components/requirejs/require.js"></script>
```
API
---
See [docs/API.md](https://github.com/posativ/isso/blob/master/docs/API.md).
Alternatives
------------
- [talkatv](https://github.com/talkatv/talkatv) Python
- [Juvia](https://github.com/phusion/juvia) Ruby on Rails
- [Tildehash.com](http://www.tildehash.com/?article=why-im-reinventing-disqus) PHP
- [SO: Unobtrusive, self-hosted comments](http://stackoverflow.com/q/2053217)
[r.js]: http://require.js/