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Dev tools · February 5, 2020

Octomments

Using GitHub issues as a comment plugin.

Octomments launched on February 5, 2020 with 88 votes, #348 of 3,162 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

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What it does

✔ ~6KB (gzip) JavaScript/CSS solution that creates a comment widget. ✔ It uses GitHub issue as a host for the comments. ✔ Allows your visitors to log in, stay on your page and comment from there. ✔ Highly customizable.

Octomments - using GitHub as a comment plugin

87% of my blog readers are using Chrome on desktop. This means that I have the luxury to care less about performance. However, I just recently found that the site has 56 (out of 100) points on Google's pagespeed test. That's not good. The report says that my Disqus comments are blocking the main thread for ~900ms. I want comments on my blog but I also want my users to reach the content as quickly as possible. So, I've made Octommentsfrom ocs.vercel.app

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