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giscus

SaaS Apps

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

Developed by laymonage
Written in
TypeScript
License Model
Free • Open Source

About 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.

Features

Ad-free
Widgets
Reactions
Embeddable

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Available Platforms

Online

Self-Hosted

Software as a Service SaaS

Tags

GitHub

comments

commenting

Licensing

Open Source (MIT) and Free product.

Supported Languages

English