favorite comment system?

Currently looking for a good comment system to replace disqus. Something that's not to bloaty, and allows for social media logins. Have been looking at commento.io though Id rather not pay monthly. Anyone have any favorites?

I usually just stick with the default Wordpress comment system as it's not bloaty at all and you can always change how it looks with coding. I know people tend to try Jetpack as an alternative.

I've tried Disqus and other alternatives and they are very bloaty and cause slower load times. Even after optimizing them and their load order, etc.

Amphoric said:

I've tried Disqus and other alternatives and they are very bloaty and cause slower load times. Even after optimizing them and their load order, etc.

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Well, Disqus hasn´t received an update in over a year.

Instead, I would try it´s "cousin" alternative wpDiscuz. It has over 70k+ active installations and it was updated a couple of weeks ago. Also, 4.8/5 stars reviews (351 out of 389 reviews are 5 stars) and it was tested up to WordPress version 5.4.2.

Check the latest comments from current users...
@maxsaint Give it a try and let us know.

Roger Marquez said:

Well, Disqus hasn´t received an update in over a year.
Instead, I would try it´s "cousin" alternative wpDiscuz.

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One of the alternatives I had tried was wpDiscuz. Check your load times before/after using it, it's pretty noticeable and typically adds javascript to each page even when it isn't loaded which will affect your whole site's loading times. You'd have to lazy load it so it only loads when you get to the comment area.

Amphoric said:

One of the alternatives I had tried was wpDiscuz. Check your load times before/after using it, it's pretty noticeable and typically adds javascript to each page even when it isn't loaded which will affect your whole site's loading times. You'd have to lazy load it so it only loads when you get to the comment area.

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Where are you hosting your sites? It´s weird hearing someone having issues with wpDisquz, usually, that´s an indication of a slow hosting.

Roger Marquez said:

Where are you hosting your sites? It´s weird hearing someone having issues with wpDisquz, usually, that´s an indication of a slow hosting.

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I do agree crappy hosting will make it worse, but I've seen the issue happen on wpxhosting and wpengine (I have clients on both their hosts and comment plugins always load a lot of stuff unless you have lazy load, and even then it's hit or miss)

If someone really wants them I get them to load after the initial load as to not affect page speed with a script. But I always suggest just finding a way to code/optimize what Wordpress uses as its less taxing in general.

Don't forget everyone does things differently. What I might find slow on my pages, other people might find normal or nothing to worry about.