Utterances
Comments widget powered by GitHub issues
Utterances is a lightweight commenting widget that uses GitHub issues as the storage backend, embeddable in any static website. Visitors comment with their GitHub accounts and threads stay in the repository.
Key features
- Comments via GitHub issues
- No backend database
- Embeddable widget
- Lightweight
Strengths
- Released under the MIT license
- Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
- Mature project with 9.7k GitHub stars
- Written in TypeScript
Utterances replaces
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