Replacing WordPress with GitHub Issues-like Blog Comments
Replacing WordPress with GitHub Issues-like Blog Comments launched on April 22, 2017 with 90 votes, #454 of 3,007 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.
In plain words
This is a lightweight blog commenting system designed as an alternative to heavy third-party solutions like Disqus. It features a GitHub Issues-inspired interface and backend, allowing developers to implement custom comment storage through a pluggable interface. Users can connect to the actual GitHub API or use simpler options like JSON file storage, making it suitable for developers who want commenting functionality without database overhead.
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From the sources
This is obviously inspired by the recent Replacing Disqus with GitHub Comments post on HN. I wanted to share something similar I've done with my blog. You're looking at it now. It's not using Disqus or any heavyweight 3rd party solution for comments. Instead, I've created something very simple, similar to GitHub Issues frontend UI and backend, and used that. The backend is completely pluggable (it's an interface ), so it can be implemented by talking to real GitHub API , or any custom implementation you want. My blog uses a simple JSON files implementation , so I can avoid a heavyweight database dependency. When I first created it, I was using yet another issues.Service implementation that…from dmitri.shuralyov.com
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