Schnack
Lightweight self-hosted commenting system
Schnack is a lightweight, self-hosted commenting system that website owners embed to host discussions without third-party trackers. It uses social login for moderation and stores comments in SQLite.
Key features
- Embeddable comment widget
- Social login moderation
- SQLite storage
- No tracking
Strengths
- Released under the MIT license
- Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
- Active community (1.8k GitHub stars)
- Written in JavaScript
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