When comparing LiveFyre vs Komments, the Slant community recommends LiveFyre for most people. In the question“What are the best comments systems for a blog?” LiveFyre is ranked 3rd while Komments is ranked 4th. The most important reason people chose LiveFyre is:
Social Tagging is another way Livefyre leverages social networks to pull in discussions to a blog. Instead of sharing the URL to a DM on twitter or a message on facebook, it's possible to tag a friend to get involved to the article right within the comment.
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Pros
Pro Social tagging pulls discussions from social networks
Social Tagging is another way Livefyre leverages social networks to pull in discussions to a blog. Instead of sharing the URL to a DM on twitter or a message on facebook, it's possible to tag a friend to get involved to the article right within the comment.
Pro Syncs with conversations happening on social networks
SocialSync syncs conversations happening on twitter and facebook to those left on a blog post. The synced comments behave like normal comments, and will also post replies, etc back to Facebook and Twitter.
This solves a big problem of bringing existing discussions to the post and is not available on competing products.
Pro Highly customizable interface
Livefyre doesn't do anything to prevent from customizing the css styles of the comments. It's possible to have the embedded comments match the look and feel of any site.
The LiveFyre interface allows:
- Sorting comments in ascending or descending order
- Tagging an individual user in a comment
- Following the conversation to receive updates
- Sharing individual comments
- Nesting replies
Pro Can highlight code blocks
Pro Has a webhook for Slack
Pro Lightweight and simple
Pro Has GitHub Flavored Markdown support
Cons
Con Closed-source
Con Limited selection of authentication methods and no service-less sign-in
Can only log in via Twitter, Facebook and GitHub.