# aroc/side-comments

[UNMAINTAINED] An interface component to give your site/app Medium.com style commenting.

Repository: https://github.com/aroc/side-comments
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/side-comments
Homepage: http://aroc.github.io/side-comments-demo
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2019-02-05T08:29:46+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4510, "days_push": 2766, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2272, forks 178 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:33.197232+00:00)

## What it is
SideComments.js is a front-end UI component that adds Medium.com-style inline commenting to sections of web content. It handles only the display layer; comment storage and retrieval are left to the developer.

## Use cases
- add medium-style inline comments to articles
- let users comment on specific paragraphs of a page
- section-level commenting ui for a blog
- replace bottom-of-page comment streams with inline annotations

## When to choose
- you want Medium-style per-section commenting and are on a legacy jQuery stack

## When to avoid
- you need a maintained library or modern framework support
- you need backend comment storage or moderation features
- your project does not use jQuery

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: ui-components, frontend-framework
- domain: web-development, frontend
- platform: browser
- tags: comments, medium-style, jquery, unmaintained, javascript

## Member repositories
- aroc/side-comments (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:33.197232+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:41:42.430142+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/aroc/side-comments (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:33.197232+00:00, sha 8f3dac2c1e14)
  - homepage: http://aroc.github.io/side-comments-demo (fetched 2026-08-29T10:22:23.749501+00:00, sha 8383f3901b84)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.