In the cloud:

• AWS
• Google Cloud
• Digital Ocean

[ ] Do you have a domain name for Talk?

Recommended: You should host Talk on a subdomain on your main site (e.g. if your site is mysitefornews.org, you should serve Talk from a subdomain like talk.mysitefornews.org) to avoid issues with third-party cookie sharing.

[ ] Do you have a MongoDB instance?

In an external MongoDB cluster?

• MongoDB Atlas
• mLab

[ ] Do you need to migrate comments from a legacy system? We currently support Disqus, Livefyre, and Civil Comments.

Use the Talk Import framework

[ ] Do you want to provide single sign-on (SSO) by integrating with an external auth system?

See Authenticating with Talk

[ ] Do you want to use Social sign-on?

• Install talk-plugin-facebook-auth

• Install talk-plugin-google-auth

Other

• See Authenticating with Talk

[ ] Do you want to use our Toxic Comments Plugin to help you automatically moderate comments based on their likelihood of being toxic?

Install talk-plugin-toxic-comments

[ ] Do you want to automatically prevent spam using the Akismet Spam Detection Plugin?

Install talk-plugin-akismet

[ ] Do you want to setup Email Notifications?

See Notifications

[ ] Do you want to setup rich text (bold, italics, quotes)?

Install talk-plugin-rich-text

[ ] Do you want to display comment counts?

Install talk-plugin-deep-reply-count if necessary.

[ ] Do you want to translate Talk to a different language?

See Translations and i18n

[ ] Do you want to send all new comments or all reported comments to a Slack channel?

See our blog for more information

[ ] Has your community team configured Talk to match your community strategy?