Comparing Chirp Form to Giscus
Compare Chirp Form with Giscus for adding comments to your static site.
- Embed forms and display responses
- EU-hosted
- GDPR-compliant
- privacy-friendly hashing
- no tracking
- two elements (form + feed)
- simple for devs and non-devs
- lightweight
- Relatively new
- smaller community
- not open source
- No ads
- no tracking
- open source
- data in GitHub Discussions
- themes
- multiple languages
- reactions
- Requires GitHub login
- no responses display widget
- ties to GitHub ecosystem
- still actively developed
Chirp Form
Add forms to any site. Display responses anywhere.
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Giscus
A comments system powered by GitHub Discussions
Overview
Inspired by Utterances but uses GitHub Discussions instead of issues; self-hosting available