# giscus/giscus

A commenting system powered by GitHub Discussions. :octocat: :speech_balloon: :gem:

Repository: https://github.com/giscus/giscus
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/giscus
Homepage: https://giscus.app
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: comments, widget, github-discussions, giscus, utterances, github, blog, comments-widget, comment-system, hacktoberfest, react, reactjs, javascript, nextjs
Last push: 2026-05-26T22:20:10+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 70/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 84, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1986, "days_push": 99, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 12054, forks 477 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:51.493810+00:00)

## What it is
giscus is an open-source commenting system for websites powered by GitHub Discussions, serving as a successor to utterances. It embeds as a widget that maps pages to GitHub Discussions, letting visitors comment and react via GitHub OAuth with no database required.

## Use cases
- add comments to a static site or blog without a backend
- replace Disqus with a privacy-friendly comment widget
- let readers comment using their GitHub accounts
- store blog comments in GitHub Discussions
- self-host a comment system with no database
- add reactions and comments to documentation pages
- migrate from utterances or gitalk to Discussions

## When to choose
- your audience is developers or GitHub users
- you want zero-cost, no-tracking comments with no database
- you want moderation handled in GitHub
- you need theming, i18n, and React/Vue/Svelte components

## When to avoid
- your visitors don't use GitHub and shouldn't need an account
- you need anonymous commenting
- you require full control over comment data outside GitHub
- you need guaranteed API stability, since GitHub Discussions API is still evolving

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: active
- function: ui-components, web-framework, auth, api-framework
- domain: web-development, frontend, developer-tools, cms
- platform: self-hosted, cross-platform
- tags: comments-widget, github-discussions, utterances-successor, static-site-comments, no-database, embeddable-widget, oauth, open-source, web-server, nodejs, react

## Member repositories
- giscus/giscus (main) score 70

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:51.493810+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 2026-08-29T17:14:58.421546+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/giscus/giscus (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:51.493810+00:00, sha d262eb094d23)
  - homepage: https://giscus.app (fetched 2026-08-29T08:12:51.418466+00:00, sha 6857134dee77)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.