Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We called this list a collection of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes, and it felt urgent to track them, to ensure these horrors—happening almost daily—would not be forgotten. Now that Trump has returned to office, amid civil rights, humanitarian, economic, and constitutional crises, we felt it critical to make an inventory of this new round of horrors. This list will be updated monthly between now and the end of Donald Trump’s second term.

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- self hosted, preferably using sqlite or trustworthy cheap hosting
- Disqus import
- platform agnostic via JavaScript embed
- multi-site support
- support for external comments (web-mentions, Fediverse replies)
- good anti spam measurements

I only found two contenders: Isso and Remark42. But neither had support for #5.

So decided to roll my own…