giscus
Commenting system powered by GitHub Discussions
giscus is a comments widget that stores discussion threads in a repository's GitHub Discussions, letting visitors comment using their GitHub accounts. It is self-hostable as a static app.
Key features
- Comments via GitHub Discussions
- No database needed
- GitHub authentication
- Theme support
Strengths
- Released under the MIT license
- Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
- Mature project with 12k GitHub stars
- Written in TypeScript
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