Alloy and Comments Stacks

[peppermint]

@mitchellm and @elixirgraphics
Same curiosity about Yabdab BackSnap stack

[elixirgraphics]

@peppermint

Yabdab BackSnap stack

I’m not familiar with that stack. What does that one do? Is it also a commenting stack?

[mitchellm]

I just tested Comment stack with Alloy. It doesn’t seem to work. I.e. comments posted appear in every post.

If there is a way for this stack to be specific per post then that would be great. Not seeing a way to do it right now but there might be a simple code addition that would allow this. Hopefully @herbertkoeppel will talk to Will and a solution can be found.

[peppermint]

Hi Adam,
Yes, Backsnap lets add comments to any page.
You can see a working example here: http://svmi.web.ve/congreso/index.php
It needs a MySQL DB

[elixirgraphics]

Hmmm, I don’t think that one is offered any longer. I can’t seem to find it on the YabDab site.

[peppermint]

Oops…Who knows why. It worked very well for me.

[elixirgraphics]

Not sure. But it was a good suggestion though.

[herbertkoeppel]

As @mitchellm found out, CommentsStacks doesn’t work with Alloy. All comments appear with all blog entries. I think this is due to the database or the database that does not exist. CommentsStack only uses a simple TXT file to store the comments.

Even if you use a conditional stack from alloy and only use commentsstacks with SHOW: at full entry, all comments will still be displayed for all blog posts.

[SanityBox]

Agreed. I manage several sites with blogs, and only one bothers with comments nowadays and for every valid comment, there’s quite literally a thousand filtered out as spam. Just not worth it for the most part.

[GavinH]

Hi Adam, how does on add Disqus to Alloy (I can’t find this in the documentation).

[elixirgraphics]

Have a look here:

Comment function for Alloy

@mitchellm is partially right here. The Disqus stack comes as a part of the Potion Pack addons. You can use it in conjunction with Alloy’s Conditionals stack to easily create a commenting section. Basically you’d include the Disqus stack with the Full Entry view content in the Conditional stack, but omit the Disqus stack from the Summaries view. Disqus does a good job of associating the current URL, which includes the individual blog post’s ID, with its own comments. This means it handles all …

[mrTablet]

Wish there were other opportunities for comments in Alloy, which is free and ad-free.

[elixirgraphics]

Disqus is free I believe and support for it is built in to Alloy.

[mrTablet]

Disqus is free but has advertising.

[elixirgraphics]

Hyvor Talk should be free as well.

That said these services have overhead. That’s why they need to charge or have ads.

[mrTablet]

@elixirgraphics

Hyvor Talk

Hyvor Talk is free trial.

[elixirgraphics]

As I said, these services have overhead to “keep the lights on.”

Per Hyvor Talk’s site:

WHY ISN’T IT FREE LIKE SOME OTHER COMMENTING SYSTEMS?

Free commenting systems tracks your visitors, shows ads on your website, and sells your data to third-party companies. We do not track, show ads, or sell data. We are completely focused on making wonderful communities on websites like yours.

[bitbumpy]

Hey friends!
I started to look into this because both my sons wanted a blog with easy commenting.
Stacks4Stacks CommentsStack is the answer and here is how you do it:

Stacks4Stacks Comment stack question

• The stack has been updated since then with options for what type of database so by trial and error I figured out the correct settings.

Database Name: Custom (default)
‘.$_GET[‘id’].’

NOTE: replace ‘id’ with your permalink id.
Also, after each post you will need to click the reload link to enable on that particular post.

Of course- credit to “heiko” in the original post.