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Moot Blog
moot.it · Company blog · on HN since 2012
Moot's blog covered its embeddable forum and commenting service, plus technical posts on Redis, real-time delivery and the Riot.js library.
What HN saysHN commenters mention Moot as an early-stage, free, non-open-source alternative to Disqus for embeddable forums and comments.
20HN people shared it
11linked it in comments
31stories submitted
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2012people per year2026
Most-shared posts
- 1Moot.it: Forums and commenting re-imagined10 people · 41 points · first shared 2012 · 57 comments on HN
- 2Redis as the primary data store4 people · 153 points · first shared 2013 · 38 comments on HN
- 3Riot.js – A 1kb client-side MVP framework3 people · 210 points · first shared 2013 · 136 comments on HN
- 4Frameworkless JavaScript2 people · 309 points · first shared 2013 · 188 comments on HN
- 5Riot.js 1kb client-side MVP framework2 people · 7 points · first shared 2013 · 1 comments on HN
- 6Forum2 people · first shared 2013
- 7About2 people · first shared 2013
- 8The realtime magic behind Moot and how we deliver all your instant notifications1 people · 135 points · first shared 2013 · 44 comments on HN
- 98 days. 8,000 forums1 people · 63 points · first shared 2013 · 70 comments on HN
- 10Moot 1.0 launches with embeddable forums and commenting without iframes1 people · 47 points · first shared 2013 · 57 comments on HN
- 11Building modular applications with Riot.js, the 1kb MVP library1 people · 31 points · first shared 2014 · 19 comments on HN
- 12Moot v1.2: SEO, 14 languages, image posting1 people · 13 points · first shared 2013 · 8 comments on HN
- 13Moot v1.11 people · 7 points · first shared 2013 · 4 comments on HN
- 14Moot Forums and Commenting – v1.31 people · 6 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 15Riot.js demo1 people · 5 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
neilstuartcraig · 2013-11-29
I was looking for the same and came up with Moot - https://moot.it/
Looks like early days but it's pretty progressing tech-wise, well worth a look.
buro9 · 2013-11-29
Don't most people who use Disqus just use the JavaScript to embed it?
At the pure tech level it's not equivalent. One required the ability to cut and paste and be done in a few moments, the other requires you to implement your own interface against the REST interface.
For a drop-in replacement, although not open source, I think moot.it looks pretty good: https://moot.it/
They're aiming at the embeddable market for comments and forums and have a pretty nice product.
Discourse is of course good on the open source side, but unless someone can point me at a JavaScript tool to allow embedding as simply as Disqus or Moot.it I think it's not the best match for this scenario.
As always... what's the full use-case? What are they trying to achieve? What are the priorities guiding the decision making process?
Discourse wins if the important criteria here is open source and the person asking the question is fine implementing the integration using the REST API.
Moot.it wins if you just want a drop-in replacement and that trumps the open source.
Writing your own wins if you want a project that will take far longer than you anticipate :)
tipiirai · 2013-04-12
Like we say; we've been up only 8 days. Our forum is currently the most active one and you'll probably get the best picture there. Here is a playground forum where you can fool around freely:
http://moot.it/demos/forum.html
sandman83 · 2013-11-29
https://moot.it/ not open source, but free and very powerful
gee_totes · 2013-06-09
Maybe outsourcing forums to http://moot.it?
vyrotek · 2013-05-03
How about https://moot.it ?
teleclimber · 2014-01-09
Next year? Try right now:
https://moot.it/blog/technology/riotjs-the-1kb-mvp-framework.html
mjackson · 2014-01-09
The very next post on this blog is all about ... drum roll ... a custom framework that the moot team built, after deciding to not use any frameworks.
https://moot.it/blog/technology/riotjs-the-1kb-mvp-framework.html
Sadly, this behavior is very common among those who have a hard time adopting existing libraries/frameworks. In the end, they almost always re-invent their own obscure wheel that does the same job.
JLehtinen · 2013-12-02
Check https://moot.it/upgrade — we currently offer 2 paid upgrades, Branding and SSO. — Janne/Moot
ing33k · 2013-05-06
creator of redis and node.js are involved.
https://moot.it/about/
courtneycouch0 · 2013-04-03
If I could ask a quick favor from you:
Can you create an account and try to post on our sandbox forum: http://moot.it/demos/forum.html
We have quite a bit more logging there. The production system is not showing any errors.
If you could do that THANKS! If not, sorry that you are having some issues!