[wyattjoh]

Developer with The Coral Project here.

Schnack seems to provide a simple solution to the "let us put some comments on the site" in a very simple and pleasantly small package. (Like seriously small, we're jealous of those numbers :))

Talk on the other hand provides a full admin panel for moderators, a robust plugin system for configuring every part of the experience.

Admittedly, not every small blog is going to need all of our features. If you want comments to work on your small site, Schnack seems to suit that role fine. Talk on the other hand is currently supporting millions of users and tens of millions of comments. It's a matter of scale really, both are great solutions that take the data out of a marketers hands.

[andrenotgiant]

I just learned about The Coral Project from this thread...

From the site, Ask and Talk seem to be aimed exclusively at News Sites (Online Journalism.)

What's your Team's take on using Talk/Ask for other purposes like Blogs or community sites for companies?

[wyattjoh]

You can certainly use the tools for anything you like! We have been focused on working with newsrooms, where we feel we'll make the most impact. You can use the Ask tool to build a form, or Talk to power your comment space.

Once we reach better adoption, and we have seen quite the adoption (just today The Intercept launched[0]), we'll be able to focus on improving the landscape further.

[0]: https://theintercept.com/2017/12/18/comments-coral-project/

[lloydde]

> supporting millions of users and tens of millions of comments

That seems like an unusually low number of comments per user, best case 99:1.

[jessaustin]

Most comments on any random blog would be the lone comment left by that particular user, right? Don't these things follow some kind of power law?

[lloydde]

Right, but users are commenters, ie doesn’t include readers.

~ 1:99 seems to suggest the platform is pretty new and/or dominated by low participation communities. Is Mozilla Coral Project federated? Can the same person be easily counted multiple times (user)?

[wyattjoh]

The numbers were roughly based on aggregated values across all our current partner companies working with us. Most of these orgs have not imported their historical data either, however they all have added support for integrating their own custom auth services into Talk, as that whole layer is pluggable, hence you might get most of the users auto-added with low participation.

The ease of use of the moderation system as well might mean that more bad comments are pushed out of the system, making it full of more higher quality discussions.

One of the pillars of Coral is to provide lots of research to assist orgs develop community strategies[0], I'd suggest taking a look if you're interested!

[0]: http://guides.coralproject.net/