---
title: Self-Hosted Commenting System
date: 2023-07-23 0:00:00 +0530
tags:
    - privacy
    - self-hosted
    - comment-system
    - remark42
categories:
    - Open Source
    - Services
slug: hosted-commenting-system
---

## Privacy-focused lightweight commenting engine

## [Remark 42](https://remark42.com/)

### It is a self-hosted, lightweight, and simple (yet functional) commenting system, which doesn’t spy on users. It can be embedded into blogs, articles or any other place where readers add comments.

### Features

1. Social login via Google, Facebook, Github, and Yandex
2. Optional anonymous access
3. Multi-level nested comments with both tree and plain presentations
3. Import from Disqus and WordPress
3. Markdown support with friendly formatter toolbar
3. Moderator can remove comments and block users
3. Voting, pinning and verification system
3. Sortable comments
3. Images upload with drag-and-drop
3. Extractor for recent comments, cross-post
3. RSS for all comments and each post
3. Telegram notifications
3. Export data to JSON with automatic backups
3. No external databases, everything embedded in a single data file
3. Fully dockerized and can be deployed in a single command
3. The self-contained executable can be deployed directly to Linux, Windows, and MacOS
3. Clean, lightweight and customizable UI with white and dark themes
3. Multi-site mode from a single instance
3. Integration with automatic SSL (direct and via NGINX-le)
3. Privacy-focused