Blog comment hosting service

A blog comment hosting service^[1] is a service which externally hosts comments posted by users to blog or online newspaper posts. Many such services allow for users to log into a blog comment hosting service using social network profile credentials such as those of Facebook Connect, Yahoo!, Google, LinkedIn, Myspace, etc. Such services may also have an effect upon instances of comment spam, as prior registration with comment hosts may be the only means by which to make comments onto many blogs.

Comparison of blog comment hosting services

Service	Date Founded	Active	Free	Self Hosted	GDPR-Compliant	Advertisements	WYSIWYG Editor	Markdown Support	Media Support	Additional Languages
ReactiveComments	2021	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Discourse	2013	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Livefyre	2009	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	?	?	Yes	Yes
Disqus	2007	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
IntenseDebate	2007	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	?	?	Yes	No
Echo^[2]	2002	No	?	?		?	?	?	?	?

References

^ Danny (2019-08-27). "Back to Basics: Backup your WordPress". Hostingly. Retrieved 2019-11-20.
^ The service was established under the name Haloscan, and renamed Echo in 2009.

"Haloscan is getting upgraded to Echo". Echo. December 9, 2009. Archived from the original on June 1, 2012. Retrieved January 21, 2016.

[1] Danny (2019-08-27). "Back to Basics: Backup your WordPress". Hostingly. Retrieved 2019-11-20.

[2] The service was established under the name Haloscan, and renamed Echo in 2009.

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