I made a post about 5 months ago showcasing this project, and by far the most requested feature was anonymous commenting. I'm happy to say I recently completed implementing this, and you can try out a demo on the website.

Features

Anonymous commenting + passwordless user authentication via email
Full markdown support
Comment edits (with edit history)
Admin moderation features, including a manual moderation queue, basic auto moderation, mass deletion and banning
Comment reply notifications and admin notifications via email

If you'd like to quickly spin up an instance yourself, Docker and bare metal instructions are provided in the quick start guide; you should additionally be able to find fairly comprehensive documentation here.

If you like what you see, feel free to leave me a star on GitHub :)

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[–] insert_newline@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

I'll use this comment to address some questions I'm getting on the demo:

Why not a wysiwyg rich text editor? Markdown is for nerds like us. Comments are for all.

Simple reason is that a plaintext markdown editor was easier to implement. I decided plaintext was "good enough" for the kind of site Confab is intended for. If there is enough demand for this, I'd be happy to look into implementing a better editor in the future. Edit: The current editor has graphical icons for all the rich text features which automatically inserts markdown snippets, so even a user who doesn't know markdown shouldn't have too much trouble using it.

[–] cosmic_skillet@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

Yep, makes sense. Thanks for your efforts!

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