Garrul: 24 More Releases, Mostly Cheaper
Garrul v2.23 to v2.40 recap: one-request mounts, static assets, fewer D1 rows read, a usage panel, plus moderation, locale and upgrade changes for self-hosters.
All the articles with the tag "comments".
Garrul v2.23 to v2.40 recap: one-request mounts, static assets, fewer D1 rows read, a usage panel, plus moderation, locale and upgrade changes for self-hosters.
Garrul's 2026-05-25 roadmap promised moderation tools, a faster widget, and admin polish. 89 days and 53 releases later, here is the honest scorecard.
A security audit of Garrul, my Cloudflare Workers comment system, found 2 critical bugs. Both had the same root cause as one I had already fixed in June.
I looked at a lot of self-hosted comment systems. None of the ones I wanted ran on Cloudflare Workers. So I wrote one. Here's the story and the deploy.
Disqus is a tracker farm wearing a comment box costume. Here's every real alternative, self-hosted and SaaS, and which one actually fits your blog.