Why anonymous comments?

Because I think people should be able to speak their mind freely without having to login or identify themselves.

I’ve never been a fan of services like Disqus. You never know what a service like that is going to do with your data. Also, it’s just easier and faster to comment when you don’t have to login.

I’m using the open-source commenting system Isso. It’s lightweight, supports markdown comments, and has most of the things you’d expect from a commenting system (e.g. reply, edit, delete, voting).

I doubt I’ll get a lot of comments. It’s mostly just something fun to setup that I’ve been thinking about for a while.

The installation and configuration for Isso wasn’t too bad at all. They provide a Dockerfile in github, so it was easy to integrate into my docker-compose blog stack. There’s just one config file for Isso, and it’s really easy to setup. The hardest part was figuring out how to configure my nginx reverse-proxy to get Isso-related requests to securely redirect to my internal Isso server. Ultimately, the solution came from Isso’s Sub URI documentation, and setting proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto https.