Coral

Open source commenting platform with moderation built into it.

About Coral

Coral is an open source commenting platform maintained by Vox Media. Coral is built for newsrooms and publishers. The project is a project of Vox Media, Inc., and was initially founded as a collaboration with the Mozilla Foundation, the New York Times and the Washington Post, with a grant from the Knight Foundation.

Vox Media moved the project to Vox Media in 2019. Coral is used across the globe in 30 countries and 23 languages, by publishers large and small. More than 120 newsrooms in 18 countries currently work with Coral.

Drafted from coralproject.net · not yet confirmed by Vox Media

How it works

Coral is an open source commenting platform originally built by the Coral Project (a Mozilla and Knight Foundation effort) and now maintained by Vox Media. Moderation is designed in rather than bolted on: pre and post moderation, banned and suspect word lists, Perspective API toxicity scoring, comment flagging, reader badges, moderator queues with keyboard shortcuts, and a report view of who's flagging what.

You self host it (Node and MongoDB) and embed the comment stream on your pages. It's built for newsrooms and publishers, and it's used by the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and others.