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giscus

A comments system powered by GitHub Discussions. Let visitors leave comments and reactions on your website via GitHub!

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source (MIT)

Application type

Platforms

  • Online
  • Self-Hosted  [https://github.com/laymonage/giscus/blob/main/SELF-HOSTING.md](https://github.com/laymonage/giscus/blob/main/SELF-HOSTING.md)
  • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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Features

  1.  Ad-free
  2.  Reactions
  3.  Comment section
  4.  Embeddable
  5. GitHub icon  GitHub Integration
  6.  Widgets

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GitHub repository

  •  12,112 Stars
  •  481 Forks
  •  127 Open Issues
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giscus was added to AlternativeTo by laymonage on and this page was last updated .

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Sam Lander
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Very similar to utterances, but it uses discussion rather than issues to host from Gtihub.

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What is giscus?

A comments system powered by GitHub Discussions. Let visitors leave comments and reactions on your website via GitHub!

• Open source. 🌏 • No tracking, no ads, always free. 📡 🚫 • No database needed. All data is stored in GitHub Discussions. :octocat: • GitHub themes: light, dark, dark dimmed, and more! 🌗 • Automatically fetches new comments and edits from GitHub. 🔃 • Can be self-hosted! 🤳

How it works

When giscus loads, the GitHub Discussions search API is used to find the Discussion associated with the page based on a chosen mapping (URL, pathname, <title>, etc.). If a matching discussion cannot be found, the giscus bot will automatically create a discussion the first time someone leaves a comment or reaction.

To comment, visitors must authorize the giscus app to post on their behalf using the GitHub OAuth flow. Alternatively, visitors can comment on the GitHub Discussion directly. You can moderate the comments on GitHub.