# utterance/utterances

:crystal_ball: A lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues

Repository: https://github.com/utterance/utterances
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/utterances
Homepage: https://utteranc.es
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: github, comments-widget, comments, blog, utterances
Last push: 2024-08-15T15:04:06+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3419, "days_push": 748, "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 9692, forks 597 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:36.780992+00:00)

## What it is
Utterances is a lightweight, open-source comments widget for blogs and wikis that stores comments as GitHub issues. It embeds via a script tag, maps pages to issues via the GitHub search API, and authenticates commenters through the GitHub OAuth flow.

## Use cases
- add comments to a static blog without a backend
- let readers comment using their GitHub accounts
- store site comments in GitHub issues for free
- add a discussion widget to documentation pages
- avoid running a comment server or database

## When to choose
- your audience is developers comfortable with GitHub
- you host a static site and want zero-maintenance comments
- you want no tracking, no ads, and data you fully control in GitHub

## When to avoid
- your readers are non-technical and unlikely to have GitHub accounts
- you need anonymous commenting
- you need rich moderation features beyond GitHub issue tools

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, auth, web-framework
- domain: web-development, developer-tools
- platform: browser, cross-platform
- tags: comments-widget, github-issues, blog-comments, embeddable-widget, oauth, blogs, web-server

## Member repositories
- utterance/utterances (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:36.780992+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 2026-08-29T17:21:16.315486+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/utterance/utterances (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:36.780992+00:00, sha 01bea083dfe3)
  - homepage: https://utteranc.es (fetched 2026-08-29T08:21:17.419851+00:00, sha 473b253ed393)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.