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:
Comments