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

• Open source. 🌏
• No tracking, no ads, always free. 📡 🚫
• No database needed. All data is stored in GitHub Discussions. 
• Supports custom themes! 🌗
• Supports multiple languages. 🌐
• Extensively configurable. 🔧
• Automatically fetches new comments and edits from GitHub. 🔃
• Can be self-hosted! 🤳

Note
giscus is still under active development. GitHub is also still actively developing Discussions and its API. Thus, some features of giscus may break or change over time.

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.

With Brewlet it's easy: if everything is working swimmingly, then you'll see the normal shadow  icon.

If updates are available to be installed, the icon will become colored,  , to get your attention – along with a notification if you wish.

Once clicked, you'll be able to upgrade your packages, among other options. In addition, Brewlet will periodically check the status of packages in the background, so you don't have to.