Ask HN: A commenting system with Firebase back end?

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7 years ago

For a static Github Pages website, I would like to have a commenting system. The idea is to use Firebase, because: 1. It gives social login: Google, Twitter, Github, FB 2. I want to use Firebase for some other functionality not related to comments. For a user it should be very convenient: once authenticated he/she can comment and can use other site features (these "features" rely on Firebase)

So much theory. I started to search for Firebase commenting system and... I can find only the projects with 0 or 1 release, projects with 1 contributor, projects abandoned 5 years ago, example projects... you got the idea.

A commenting system should have a few features: something like an admin interface; something to fight/prevent spam. I can not find such a thing with Firebase as a backend!

There are quite advanced self-hosted systems, Coralproject [1] and Commento [2] are good examples. They do not use Firebase.

I do not need all the features of Coralproject. But a commenting system with Firebase backend, antispam and with something like an admin interface would be great. Do you know such a thing?

[1] https://github.com/coralproject/talk [2] https://gitlab.com/commento/commento/

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