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Commento

Privacy-friendly embeddable discussion widget

Forums & Community ★ 3.8k stars Easy setup MIT

Commento is a privacy-friendly, embeddable discussion and comment widget that lets website owners add threaded conversations to any page. It supports moderation, voting, and avoids third-party trackers.

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Key features

  • Embeddable comment widget
  • No tracking by default
  • Voting and threading
  • Moderation dashboard

Strengths

  • Released under the MIT license
  • Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
  • First-class Docker support for quick deployment
  • Active community (3.8k GitHub stars)

Is Commento secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Commento's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

Commento replaces

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