Moot's blog covered its embeddable forum and commenting service, plus technical posts on Redis, real-time delivery and the Riot.js library.
HN commenters mention Moot as an early-stage, free, non-open-source alternative to Disqus for embeddable forums and comments.
Don't most people who use Disqus just use the JavaScript to embed it?
At the pure tech level it's not equivalent. One required the ability to cut and paste and be done in a few moments, the other requires you to implement your own interface against the REST interface.
For a drop-in replacement, although not open source, I think moot.it looks pretty good: https://moot.it/
They're aiming at the embeddable market for comments and forums and have a pretty nice product.
Discourse is of course good on the open source side, but unless someone can point me at a JavaScript tool to allow embedding as simply as Disqus or Moot.it I think it's not the best match for this scenario.
As always... what's the full use-case? What are they trying to achieve? What are the priorities guiding the decision making process?
Discourse wins if the important criteria here is open source and the person asking the question is fine implementing the integration using the REST API.
Moot.it wins if you just want a drop-in replacement and that trumps the open source.
Writing your own wins if you want a project that will take far longer than you anticipate :)
The very next post on this blog is all about ... drum roll ... a custom framework that the moot team built, after deciding to not use any frameworks.
https://moot.it/blog/technology/riotjs-the-1kb-mvp-framework.html
Sadly, this behavior is very common among those who have a hard time adopting existing libraries/frameworks. In the end, they almost always re-invent their own obscure wheel that does the same job.
If I could ask a quick favor from you:
Can you create an account and try to post on our sandbox forum: http://moot.it/demos/forum.html
We have quite a bit more logging there. The production system is not showing any errors.
If you could do that THANKS! If not, sorry that you are having some issues!
Like we say; we've been up only 8 days. Our forum is currently the most active one and you'll probably get the best picture there. Here is a playground forum where you can fool around freely:
http://moot.it/demos/forum.html
I was looking for the same and came up with Moot - https://moot.it/
Looks like early days but it's pretty progressing tech-wise, well worth a look.
Check https://moot.it/upgrade — we currently offer 2 paid upgrades, Branding and SSO. — Janne/Moot