{
  "slug": "giscus",
  "name": "Giscus",
  "url": "https://giscus.app",
  "cat": "rt",
  "group": "back",
  "tagline": "Comments via GitHub Discussions",
  "price": "Free forever and open source. No hosting cost, no database, no accounts to administer — every thread is stored as a GitHub Discussion in a repository you already own",
  "tier": "free",
  "pick": false,
  "what": "Comment widget that stores each thread as a GitHub Discussion. You install the giscus app, enable Discussions on a public repo, and a script tag maps each page to a discussion by pathname, URL or og:title. Supports threaded replies, reactions, themes and lazy loading, with no database of your own.",
  "why": "Zero infrastructure, zero cost, zero moderation queue — GitHub handles authentication, spam and abuse reporting for you. For a developer-audience project or a docs site it is the default answer and takes about ten minutes.",
  "warn": "Commenters need a GitHub account and must authorise the app, which excludes almost all non-technical readers — usually disqualifying for a general-audience project. The repository must be public, so every comment is public too.",
  "install": "Paste the generated script tag from giscus.app/#configuration",
  "category": {
    "key": "rt",
    "name": "Realtime, comments & collab",
    "desc": "Live updates, comment systems, video, community.",
    "group": "back",
    "groupName": "Give it a backend"
  },
  "freshness": null,
  "health": {
    "ok": true,
    "status_code": 200,
    "final_url": "https://giscus.app/",
    "checked_at": "2026-08-18T18:09:22.039+00:00"
  },
  "corrected_at": null,
  "upstream_changed_at": null
}