GRgraderjs·Mar 20, 2021Submission
2 points · Open discussiongitalk
gitalk
TypeScript2017–2021
gitalk / gitalk
gitalk
Gitalk — a comment component based on GitHub Discussions (current, 2.x). The GitHub Issues based 1.x line is end-of-life.
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7Mentions
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7.2KGitHub stars
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What it is
Gitalk — a comment component based on GitHub Discussions (current, 2.x). The GitHub Issues based 1.x line is end-of-life.
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Where it is used
No documented product use has been verified yet.
What people are saying
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This week on Hacker News
Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 11:56:56 AM UTC.
No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.
Mentions over time
HN mentions by year7 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2017-07-28 15:19:28 UTC to 2021-03-20 04:51:54 UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
View mention counts and date ranges
| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
7 sourcesAnother option is to host the comments in Github/Gitlab issues. There are several plugins that allow users to login using OAuth and post comments.
Gitalk is one of them: https://github.com/gitalk/gitalk/
Vssue supports both GitHub and GitLab, and allows users to edit and delete their comments: https://vssue.js.org/
And there is also Gitment: https://github.com/imsun/gitment
In Ask HN: How to self-host comments on your otherwise static blog?All (?) upcoming alternatves to Disqus: (my own listed last)
- Mozilla's Talk, https://github.com/coralproject/talk. Open source, install yourself.
- Discourse, https://www.discourse.org/. One needs to navigate to a separate page, to post a comment. Not threaded. Min $20/month. Open source. Facebook and Gmail login.
- Isso: https://posativ.org/isso/. Open source, install on your own server.
- Commento, https://github.com/adtac/commento. Open source. Moderation, spam-protection and hosting is under development.
- Schnack, https://www.vis4.net/blog/2017/10/hello-schnack/. Open source, install yourself. Has GitHub and Facebook login.
- HostedComments, https://www.hostedcomments.com/. Proprietory. Min $10/month
- Remarbox, https://www.remarkbox.com/. Proprietory. Min $4/month
- Gitalk. https://github.com/gitalk/gitalk. Open source, install yo
Read the rest
urself. Comments stored as GitHub issues.
- https://github.com/skx/e-comments. Open source, install yourself.
- And my own: EffectiveDiscussions: https://www.effectivediscussions.org/blog-comments. Open source, or $2 per month. Has Facebook and Gmail login.
Aren't they served by Gitalk? There's a username dropdown, and inside there's a link "Gitalk1.1.4" —> https://github.com/gitalk/gitalk. Also, doesn't really look like Disqus to me.
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