Comentario‣3.10.0 Donaghadee

New version Comentario 3.10.0 Donaghadee has seen the light of day.

Comentario is a fast and powerful free comment server for web pages, written in Go.

An important announcement: if you’re only interested in news about Comentario, feel free to bookmark the Comentario series page. It also provides a dedicated RSS feed.

What’s new

Spinners

The embedded Comentario comments now display a spinner during (potentially) long-running operations, such as signing in, submitting a comment, voting on a comment, stickying a comment etc. (#94):

It also addresses another problem related to submitting comments: the Add Comment button gets disabled after the first click, making it impossible to repeatedly submit the same comment (#116).

Language fallback path

Language fallback path handling has been added (#121, thanks to @Func86). Now, if there’s no direct match for the requested page language, the embedded Comentario will try to find an appropriate available regional or script variant first, before falling back to a generic variant and, finally, to the global default (English).

For those interested, the fallback path should look a bit like below:

Comment properties

Comment properties page now also show comment text in HTML, as well as its Markdown source:

Domain user properties

Domain owners got the ability to change their users’ notification settings on the corresponding Edit page (#119):

IPv6 support

Finally, Comentario fully supports registering complete IPv6 addresses, fixing bugs (#95) in the user and comment database tables. As a bonus, the user’s or commenter’s IP address and country are now displayed, too (don’t worry, the below is just an example; Comentario only registers the first two bytes of the address by default):

Documentation

This release significantly improves on Comentario documentation:

• Added the Architecture section (#117).
• Added Read on link to section children snippets
• Fixed and improved Search functionality:
  • Results are ranked based on location and number of occurrences.
  • Search is re-run on back/forward navigation in the browser.
  • Added result count display.

Other changes

• Embed: use Intl.RelativeTimeFormat for relative time (#122)
• Embed: display localized date and time
• Embed: fix code blocks expanding beyond the card’s width (#110)
• Embed: add Jest and unit tests for Utils
• Embed: only build by default; test and lint are executed separately
• Admin UI: improve front page placeholder display, replace deprecated test code
• I18n: add translations for Chinese
• I18n: enlarge user lang_id col to 255 chars (#107)
• Docs: expand self-host desc somewhat
• Docs: switch to using Hugo environments
• Docs: README: update blog link
• Support for custom user attributes
• Docker: fix ENV warning
• CI: run the pipeline for each commit, but publish stuff in dev/tag only
• Code: require Go 1.23.0

Live Demo

You can see the new version, as well as its Administrative UI (login with email admin@admin and password admin), on the demo website:

Comments Live Demo Administrative UI Demo

Installation

If you’re interested in trying out Comentario, you can start with these documentation pages:

• Getting started.
• Installation.
• Migration (from Commento(++), Disqus, Wordpress).