seletz
Joined 15 years ago
Joined 15 years ago
From my experience it's more often not the tools but the content.
For comments you could use https://giscus.app which integrates very nicely with GitHub.
Doing so you have *no* setup costs.
I'm aware that this is not exactly *self hosted* -- but it has the advantage that you have no upfront cost. And most of the static site generators are just that, you could host the output on any 5$ web server.
The UI might look a little outdated, but that's a admin ui anyhow. Lately even that got better.
Cannot recommend KC enough. Even kenning locally on our dev boxen, it never failed on us.
If you actually want to transport configuration across environments (DEV, QA, PROD), then you want to export realms and have it load by KC on startup or import it using the UI.
Tables for instance get quite complex pretty fast -- joined cells, text alignment, etc.
As for a format which -- not plain text, though -- that handles this is rich text. It's been around for quite some time.
IMHO the problem is in the difference between presentation and data. One group of consumers want the "data" and parse it, the other group of consumers want to basically have it "look the same in this app as in the other app, and don't make my think."
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